I think this is the best point that has been advanced in favor of using perl: "Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Morgan Stanley all use Perl in production ..."
Does anyone have additional details, e.g. the names of the projects, number of servers, number of users, estimated cost, estimated savings by using perl, etc. This is basic information that should be available to Perl advocates, i.e. easily findable at http://www.perl.org/advocacy/ which unfortunately does not have anything of the sort. Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V4D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. -----Original Message----- From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:06 PM To: boston-pm@pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development I met that person and discussed about the richness or perl data structures. He was adamant that perl did not have strong typing. I told him that perl is intelligent and would guess the data type. What the heck? In business applications I have hardly come across anything more than a = b + c ! 95% what we handle are strings. Which is the most preferred language for strings? Also, he said that perl code looked confusing! Well everything requires some getting used to. But I know a lot of COBOL programs that are utterly confusing. Requiring 'system.out.println' could be confusing for someone not used objects at all. It went on for some time but neither of us convinced the other. But I did tell him that Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Morgan Stanly all use Perl in production and in fact we are using perl in mission-critical production. We had problems but it had nothing to do with perl or the architecture! __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
