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
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:04:51 -0500, James Linden Rose, III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 08:28 AM, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
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
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 !
Huh. Sounds like somebody made up their mind and then went looking for
facts to support their decision. Good luck on changing minds here...
I took out Perl. After looking at www.perl.org and the language more,
the main item I didn't like is that it is not type safe, there are only
three
Here is an email I received internally regarding the shortlist of
languages for future software development. I must add that this is a
corporate environment. I responded saying that Perl has one of the richest
data structures that I know of. Strong typing is actually a bad thing as
far as I am
hi
( 05.02.22 14:38 -0800 ) Ranga Nathan:
I must add that this is a corporate environment.
i guess you should also add 'brain-dead' corporate environment [or maybe
that's just implied].
How can I rebut this arguement in a better way?
doesn't seem too logical and argument. so you can't use
Well, perhaps we should look at this not so much in the manner of logic,
but perhaps scare tactics. For example, WPI recently went through its
statistics on hack and hack attempts against the school servers (I know
not really a corporate environment, but I'll get to my point). It turns
out that
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:38, Ranga Nathan wrote:
Here is an email I received internally regarding the shortlist of
languages for future software development. I must add that this is a
corporate environment. I responded saying that Perl has one of the richest
data structures that I know of.
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:32 -0500, Bob Rogers wrote:
The type safe programming languages instead force you to pre-declare
that a variable is a string or integer, and then to invoke a
function or method which explicitly converts one to the other, and thus
adding five to 10 would
From: Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:00:15 -0500
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:32 -0500, Bob Rogers wrote:
The type safe programming languages instead force you to pre-declare
that a variable is a string or integer, and then to invoke a
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