On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:35:16PM +0200, Damon Jacobsen wrote: > I have yet to figure out any advantage these other languages offer > over c++. VB, Perl, Python, etc all seem the same to me. All these > languages seem to be halfway between c++ and a scripting language. > The only new language that seems to offer any benefits is Java, but > only due to its cross platform capability. I would welcome anyone > who knows/uses these other languages to share their benefits.
I use C++ my large multiple-month/year project programming language. The hard structure is needed when things are really complicated and will be worked on for a long time by lots of people in a production environment. I've use perl for my shorter-term projects. Trying to write a screen-scraper for my fantasy football team is much quicker with the syntax of Perl and it's regular expressions. Since the syntax is much looser, it's quick to throw things together at the expense of long term maintenance. Perl's objecte orient-ness is really bad, however. Trying to store all of the data on a player in the football team above gets wierd as you write hashes-in-hashes and such. I've been writing more in Ruby because it has fixed some of these problems. It's quick to make a little class to hold my player data, then use regex expressions to get the data from the screen. Re-output everthing as an html page, and we're in business. Yes, I could write this in C++ and the Boost libraries, but for informal programming, these non-compiled languates are so much easier and make programming more fun. -- Lance Orner [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
