RE: :) What you can't do in java you can do in perl
- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:03:34 -0500
Jared - I wasn't thinking of specific tasks and how they would be
accomplished in each language. Actually that is the very point where Perl
excels. But I don't see many large applications written in Perl. For
example, suppose your management was creating a development group with
several dozen developers and they were going to spend 6 months or a year
building a large application, and then the company was hoping to use and
maintain this application for many years into the future. Now many other
issues are involved, like availability of tools like IDEs and webservers,
availability of programmers experienced in the language chosen, etc. I think
that if I pressed hard for Perl in that situation, I might not be taken
seriously. On the other hand, writing DBA utilities mostly for my own use is
a great situation for Perl.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:33 PM
To: DENNIS WILLIAMS
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: :) What you can't do in java you can do in perl
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:55:48 -0500, DENNIS WILLIAMS
<dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the other hand, I wouldn't attempt some Java taskswith Perl.
Hi Dennis,
Anything in particular. Perl is quite simply, an amazing powerful language
with a huge set of modules. Can't imagine what you could do in Java that
wouldn't probably be easier in Perl.
Then again, I'm biased. :)
Yes, I have done a little Java, also had some training from Sun.
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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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