Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Tilly
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

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-25 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 05.02.25 08:28 -0500 ) Tolkin, Steve: > Does anyone have additional details, e.g. the names of the projects, > number of servers, number of users, estimated cost, estimated savings by > using perl, etc. there's a list of mod_perl 'success' stories here: http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/sit

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-25 Thread James Linden Rose, III
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 production ..." Does anyone have additional details, e.g. the names of the projects, number of servers

RE: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-25 Thread Tolkin, Steve
2005 9:06 PM 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

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-24 Thread Ranga Nathan
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 ! 95

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-23 Thread Larry Underhill
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

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Rogers
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 >

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Aaron Sherman
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

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:49:36 -0500 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

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Aaron Sherman
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 o

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
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. Is "a corporate environment" code for "a company"? Cos I can name about a zillion companies that use perl every day.

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
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 o

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread John Saylor
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