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Besides, everyone knows Python is better than Perl anyway :)

-Mark


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 00:52, Wim Verveen wrote:

> Maybe we should stop the perl or not to perl decision. Microsoft does
> endorse perl nowadays and even some of their tools are written in it but
> it is a kind of alien language on windows. It always was and will always
> be (I suppose). I do use it quite extensively for certain operations but
> only because nothing else is available. I agree with Michaels points,
> perl is just not a native windows app and so are perl applications. As a
> Windows user I would prefer something like /NET and only use perl if all
> else fails.
> 
> Wim
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> On Sunday 16 May 2004 07:00 am, Michal Altair Valasek wrote:
> > |And finally, for the $64000 question: Can you explain me WTF=20
> > |difference does it make for a report tool, that reads text files and=20
> > |spits HTML (and that it is absolutely not performance critical), the
> > |language that it is written in?
> >
> > It's not important what language uses the given application. Runtime=20
> > is what is important.
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> >
> > For typical Windows system administrator, running Perl or Java=20
> > application is pain in the ass. The runtimes are complicated to=20
> > install and setup and tends to break any given security architecture=20
> > existing.
> 
> WHAT? Have you installed Perl on Windows from ActiveState
> (http://activestate.com)? What is so hard about that? Three or four
> screens with a few simple options. Are you upset because it wants to
> install in c:\Perl and not in your magic c:\Program Files? WELL, CHANGE
> IT TO c:\Program Files by hitting the browse button right there on the
> screen. I just don't understand your problem.
> 
> And the 'security issues' - what are you refering to? I can write
> insecure .Net apps as well as secure Perl apps on windows. I don't think
> security issues are tied to perl.
> 
> If your up to it, please give examples of security problems caused by
> Perl.
> 
> >
> > In the above situation, installing such runtime is a truly religious
> > experience: you can't understand it, you must blindly faith in it.
> 
> I would recommend going to church for religious experiences. Is this
> remark prompted by your lack of abliity or ignorance or both?
> 
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