Yeah, it's kind of sad. Perl still has a lot of life left in it but it's no longer the flavour of the month/year/decade.
I sometimes feel antiquated for still using Perl, but the advance of Java is inexorable. That said, Java ain't so bad. I'm actually getting used to it. I sure miss the lexing and parsing capabilities of Perl, but Java is much faster so it evens out. About 100% more code lines but 50% faster runtime, in my own tests. And you get nice IDE's. A worthwhile tradeoff, in my opinion. On 2/15/07, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/15/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is no activity because nobody posts. > > but the perl-heads (Sherwin, Migs, myself...) are still subscribed so > far as I know. it seems there isn't much new development going on in > Perl anymore so the activity is really low/non-existent. I only write Perl one liners... anything longer, is in Java :) Times have changed! Ten years ago I was writing complete ISP billing apps in Perl (now lost). _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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