On 08/12/05 10:48, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:33 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> ...
Since we seem to be firing up another burner on the grill, lets bring
Java back into things. J2EE is just as complicated as Perl (and in fact
more so). If you're going to argue that Perl is a bad language because
its complicated, you're going to have to agree that J2EE is a bad
technology because its complicated.
Coming from the point of view of one who has spent a decent amount of
time programming in Java (though only a little in J2EE) and is still a
n00b at Perl, here's what I perceive:
Java: Structured, wordy, can be good in certain situations
where structure and patterns are important such as large
team environments. Not well suited for scripting, or
for that matter, anything that needs to be done quickly.
Memory hog.
J2EE: Complicated. Not very fun. Again, I have little
experience (one class @ BYU), but I'd rather do PHP.
Said to be scalable.
php: Nice in many ways, but it gets the job done. Often
poorly designed (register_globals) and often abused by
n00b web developers. I worked as a sysadmin in a web
development shop and wow, can php be abused. But then
again, so can everything else.
perl: Powerful. quick to code in, hard to learn well enough to
write good code. I'd like to learn it for the
usefulness of it and the fact that as a sysadmin I see
it all the time. It's also on just about every *nix
system out there. I'd rather code in Python.
python: Powerful. combines much of what I like about Java and
PHP. Whitespace delimiting isn't really all that hard
to get used to, though copying code can be a pain.
Not perfect, though very nice.
Each language has positives and negatives; each has environments where
it functions best. People will have their preferred language; it is
often chosen based both on how they were trained and how they think
naturally. I choose python for scripting and php for web development,
though I'd like to look into python web toolkits at some point. I have
no formal training in either - my formal training is in BASIC, C, C++,
SAS, and Java (in that order).
My 2 cents Stricklandian,
--Tyler
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