Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Namens Beau E. Cox > Verzonden: maandag 17 mei 2004 1:04 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: [xmail] Re: Xmail reports -- anyone have a wish list? > > > 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? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: image/png -- File: smiley-3.png - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
