On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:31, David G Stevenson wrote: > Slighty OT: > > Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to > suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of > the current 'popular' choice. I do feel that while languages come and go > and others evolve, Perl just seems to carry on being a darn good work > horse especially when there is lots of data to crunch in the background. > > Then again, I am just an old timer that grew up on Perl and Oracle :-)
All so true, as a programmer on the Big Iron, I know that a good old COBOL job can do in 1 minute what some of these new-fangled 4GL environments take 10 minutes to achieve :-) The 4GL takes 1 tenth of the time to write however. Of course, the ASM guys in the next pod over would normally chime in about this point in any conversation to remind us that they can run it in about 10 seconds... John. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205
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