advangtes of Perl on various languages

Hi All I would like to know answers of following questions : - What all advantages Perl has on top of other scripting languages like Python , shell , Java ? - What is the career growth, road map in Perl programming ? I am not sure , if this questions are right for thi

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> - What all advantages Perl has on top of other scripting languages like > Python , shell , Java ? Its a never ending argument but the best advantage of Perl (according to me) is light weight, very fast, Open Source, CPAN modules, excellent documentation, small and easy way to do complex thing an

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On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:42:28 +0530, Sunita Rani Pradhan wrote: > I would like to know answers of following questions : > > - What all advantages Perl has on top of other scripting languages like > Python , shell , Java ? > > - What is the career growth, road map in Perl programming

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From: "Sunita Rani Pradhan" - What all advantages Perl has on top of other scripting languages like Python , shell , Java ? Compared with Python: Advantages: - Perl offers more free helpful modules for web programming and system administration - Perl is much more flexible than Python - Pe

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> "OR" == Octavian Rasnita writes: OR> Disadvantages: OR> - Python is prefered by software companies, because it enforce a OR> single style of programming, not the "there is more than one way to do OR> it" style. preferred? plenty of companies prefer perl. OR> - Python has a much

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From: "Uri Guttman" >> "OR" == Octavian Rasnita writes: OR> Disadvantages: OR> - Python is prefered by software companies, because it enforce a OR> single style of programming, not the "there is more than one way to do OR> it" style. preferred? plenty of companies prefer perl. Not i

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> "OR" == Octavian Rasnita writes: OR> From: "Uri Guttman" >> "OR" == Octavian OR> Rasnita writes: OR> Disadvantages: OR> - Python is prefered by software companies, because it enforce a OR> single style of programming, not the "there is more than one >> way to do OR> it" s

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From: "Uri Guttman" >> "OR" == Octavian Rasnita writes: OR> Perl compiles to bytecode but it doesn't save the compiled file, OR> so in non-persistent programs like FastCGI or mod_perl the OR> programs must be compiled again and again. Python saves the OR> compiled bytecode of its module

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> "OR" == Octavian Rasnita writes: >> memoize on fibbinacci?? hahah. OR> Yes. I have taken that Fibonacci subroutine exactly from Memoize's POD. i was being sarcastic. fib is the last function in the world you would memoize. it has a faster linear solution. the point is recursion is a l

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Hi all, I think its time the real beauty of perl from the origin is restored. Although am not a programmer per see but I used only perl and bash for whatever I need in programming. I think all the so called disadvantages today could be ported to perl from other languages as Rasnita had raised, thi

RE: advangtes of Perl on various languages

Hi Peter Please check my answers down . Thanks Sunita -Original Message- From: Peter Scott [mailto:pe...@psdt.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:16 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: advangtes of Perl on various languages On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:42:28 +0530, Sunita Rani Pradhan

Re: advangtes of Perl on various languages

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Sunita Rani Pradhan < sunita.prad...@altair.com> wrote: > Hi All > > > >I would like to know answers of following questions : > > > > - What all advantages Perl has on top of other scripting languages like > Python , shell , Java ? > > > > - What is th

Re: advangtes of Perl on various languages

From: "Goke Aruna" Hi all, I think its time the real beauty of perl from the origin is restored. Although am not a programmer per see but I used only perl and bash for whatever I need in programming. I think all the so called disadvantages today could be ported to perl from other languages as R

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > the Perl community is not so interested in Windows OS, although it is the > most used OS and the OS used by the most businesses. That's sort of flame bait. :\ I'll try not to preach. :P It /might/ be true that more businesses use Windows o

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From: "Brandon McCaig" On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: the Perl community is not so interested in Windows OS, although it is the most used OS and the OS used by the most businesses. That's sort of flame bait. :\ I'll try not to preach. :P It /might/ be true that more

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On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:32:31 +0530, Sunita Rani Pradhan wrote: This is a good question .I am asking for my own career growth . I > work as a automation engineer . I used to be in manual testing and moved > to automation just been 1.5yr. What does an automation engineer do, and what industry a

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > If Perl is intimidating I think that this is a disadvantage. Some people are easily intimidated. It was that kind of thinking that unleashed /Visual Basic/ upon the world. :( -- Brandon McCaig V zrna gur orfg

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From: "Brandon McCaig" > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> If Perl is intimidating I think that this is a disadvantage. > > Some people are easily intimidated. It was that kind of thinking that > unleashed /Visual Basic/ upon the world. :( :-) Very true. But not the

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Octavian, For what it's worth, I thought you've done very well with this crowd and that your first and subsequent posts on this topic was balanced and fair. But it seems this crowd was biased toward Perl, so even being fair is hard. A mailing list of users who use Perl and who read job boards di

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2011/1/6 Raymond Wan : > > > Brandon again (sorry, maybe should have written two replies) -- I was > going to avoid this thread but while working today, I was reading > another program's documentation and they gave a script to run their > program in Python.  That's when I realized that the recent p

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Raymond Wan wrote: > I use C more than Perl in my work and I definitely don't think it is > obsolete. I never said it was. ;) C still has very many important roles and I wouldn't have it any other way. xD There were a lot of other people in college that were terri

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Hi Brandon, On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 01:53, Brandon McCaig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Raymond Wan wrote: > I never said it was. ;) C still has very many important roles and I > wouldn't have it any other way. xD There were a lot of other people in > college that were terrified of C