RE: Perl drawbacks

2002-07-02 Thread Richard A. Evans
-Original Message- > Do you know any comments on this article from the Perl side? > http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/perl.html -- I realize that this thread has pretty much been laid to rest, but... I have read the referenced article and several others lik

RE: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-20 Thread Steve Aaron
inchi'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perl drawbacks I also concur. As someone who heavily uses regex's in Perl and also uses regex's in Java (via the Jakarta ORO package in pre-Java1.4 or the new javax.util.regex package in Java1.4), let me tell you that regex's in Java are a

RE: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
lee: > >... The new ASP.NET allows you to separate the HTML from > >the class files and C# and JScript.NET receive full object orientation > >including virtuals, overrides, statics and abstracts. Throw in ADO.NET > >and it's hard to beat. > > Throw my couple of thousand to buy it, and I may agree.

Re: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-18 Thread Lee Goddard
At 20:38 17/06/2002, Gerry Hickman wrote: >... The new ASP.NET allows you to separate the HTML from >the class files and C# and JScript.NET receive full object orientation >including virtuals, overrides, statics and abstracts. Throw in ADO.NET >and it's hard to beat. Throw my couple of thousand

Re: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-18 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Robert Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 17 Jun 2002, at 22:10, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > > Defining interfaces - Not really much of a problem in my view. > > > Again the document compares perl to CL which is certainly better > > > in this regard, but this says more about how good CL is

perl drawbacks? nope!

2002-06-18 Thread intertwingled
Perl is the most powerful and far-reaching computer language ever devised by the mind of man. Period. -- even the safest course is fraught with peril ___ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mail

Re: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-18 Thread Shawn
> > > > Do you know any comments on this article from the Perl side? > > > > http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/perl.html I'd appreciate > > > > any URLs. I did a brief Google search and didn't find much. I was going to keep my mouth shut, but I just read the article again... I can't see h

RE: Perl drawbacks

2002-06-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
Gerry Hickman : > I think this has been true for a while with all the popular languages > and platforms. When ASP came out JScript was not bad, but not really up > to Perl standards. It was object based, but not quite object orientated, > but what really made ASP was the ability to instantiate COM