Just in case it was missed in the subsequent conflagration (and I always
marvel at how easy it is to start a conflagration by saying something
like "language X is better than language Y"), I would just like to state
that my blurb was meant to be taken lightly, with ;-) and so on.
Comparing programming languages is a lot like comparing Microsoft
software to Open Source, or comparing car brands, or (in my younger
times) comparing stereo brands, etc..
One more thing I would like to add however to all the Java crazies
around here, at least the open-minded subset of them : perl is fun. I
am not saying that it is the ideal language to develop a large
application with a team of people, and I am not saying that it is faster
or better or uses less memory or any of these things (though it does,
really). But it is, definitely, more /fun/ than Java. And you can do
serious things with it too.
And a serious tip : if you are ever in the situation of having to start
a new project on some theme you know nothing about (say, credit card
payments, or talking to Amazon, or filtering emails, or reading
meta-data in photos, or stemming German words, or authenticating against
OpenId,..), then you could do worse than first having a look at the Perl
module library (http://kobesearch.cpan.org/), and perusing the perl
modules documentation. Even if you know nothing of perl and don't want
to know anything about it, the documentation of these (hundreds of)
modules, all in one place and searchable, is one of the best sources of
information I know. It is like a Wikipedia of everything one can do
with software.
And if in addition to be a Java fan, you're also an OO fan, search for
"class". Don't the names just sound like fun ?
Is there, by the way, any comparable source for Java libraries ?
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