Paul J. Boyes wrote:
I use Java and Perl daily. I really like Perl for it's raw ability to get
things done as a system and server side web language. But, I believe Java
covers a lot more ground and serves a broader purpose than Perl when it
comes to application development, distributed computing
servers, web browsers,
etc... are written in Perl?
I'm just puzzled by this. Why is Java better than Perl for enterprise level
computing? Perl is the more advanced and flexible language. If I'm not
mistaken the first webserver was written in Perl in PLEXUS. Everytime a major
application had
Excellent points.
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Paul J. Boyes wrote:
I use Java and Perl daily. I really like Perl for it's raw ability to
get
things done as a system and server side web language. But, I believe
Java
covers a lot more ground
I'm just puzzled by this. Why is Java better than Perl for enterprise
level
computing? Perl is the more advanced and flexible language. If I'm not
mistaken the first webserver was written in Perl in PLEXUS. Everytime a
major
application had been written in Java, I can't wait until someone
of jobs that require 3+ years of (each of) Perl
and Java. I have 8 years of Perl and none of Java and was beginning to wonder
if this was just another catch-all job description or if there was something
going on in the industry that I didn't know about.
At 01:04 +0200 2003-03-31, Steffen Mueller
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vicki Brown wrote:
I have noticed an increase in the number of job descriptions that seem to
look for about equal amounts of experience in both Java and Perl. I have
never really considered the two languages to play much in the same space;
yes, both are used for web stuff
At 11:21 -0800 2003-03-28, Paul J. Boyes wrote:
I believe Java
covers a lot more ground and serves a broader purpose than Perl when it
comes to application development, distributed computing, enterprise level
computing, etc... For example, how many IDE's, web servers, web browsers,
etc... are
requirement.
Can you send me (us) a map when you get there?? ;-)...
I think this goes back to what one of the other posters mentioned, that is, that
applications are asking for Java and Perl not because they are in the same space, but
precisely because they are not. They are looking for 1 person
Robert == Robert F Conabee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert In the end we had converted the display portion of the site to
Robert Java servlets, but all of the back end data collection and
Robert delivery to off-site web-servers remained in Perl. Once we
Robert took a critical look at
I have noticed an increase in the number of job descriptions that seem to
look for about equal amounts of experience in both Java and Perl. I have
never really considered the two languages to play much in the same space;
yes, both are used for web stuff, but differently, and in non-web stuff
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