Ken,
I took a realy quick look a very short 10 page perl tutorial
I did not like the soft typeing . find the thre daTA types confusing
, espeacialy when acessin there index arrays. Also think that only
three data types is kind of lacking.
At 08:25 PM 4/23/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I'd recommend Perl for such things. Perl is very portable, is great
>for small one-off scripts and command line use, but is also good for
>longer programs. There are lots of perl modules on CPAN to do
>various tasks, including a lot of database stuff.
>
>There's a Perl/Tk module, so you can use Tk without Tcl. Tcl is
>designed to be a general purpose scripting language too, but has its
>own syntax peculiarities, etc.
Can you explian this ? I kind of founfd perl to ne rather confusing ?
>If you've used Delphi's object oriented abilities, you'd probably
>appreciate Perl's, although it works at sort of a shallower level
>than Delphi. More like cooperative object orientation, but still
>very effective for encapsulating properties and behaviors in named
>entiities.
Hmmm , I have been reading bruce eckles thinking in jave , I am having a hard
time with the oop stuff. Delphi via the ide allows you to slap together
components
and hook them together with code snippets and object prperties. Kind of
insulates
you from the oop stuff , till you need to deal with it.
Java (sun jkd)on the other hand doesent have an ide , but relies on hand
coding and
using the supplied layout managers. That is good in that you are more
intamate with
your source , but takes much more time and effort on the devolper. I found
Borlanmds
jbuilder to be realy confusing , and have a copy of simplicity tha con be
used on both
win on linux. I find my self hamperd by lack of knoldeg of java and the
api and difrent
event handling structure. Is similar but quit diffrent form delphi pascal.
Saving grace
is cross platform use and similarity to c/c++ .
>Re RAD, well, there's no integrated editor, but Perl compiles
>(quickly) at run time, so the code-test-code thing goes pretty fast.
>
>Ken
>
>
>
>On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, you wrote:
>>Hi folks, Hope some of you can help me out here.
>>I have dabbled in programing a bit , started out with Clarion for dos ,
>>worked a little with clipper and am now currently using Borlands Delphi.
>>
>>I am now looking to slowly move to linux . I have gotten really tired of
>>reloading windows and dealing with the "driver shuffle" and "plug and play"
>>that every few months changes every thing around on you.
>>
>>My level of programing is somewhere between novice and intermediate. For
>>what thats worth. I am real short on time , but ofton play at home . In
>>other words , I really don't want to learn a whole lot of languages , but
>>would rather put my time into one language that can handle what I want to
do.
>>
>>SO IF YOU HAD ONLY ONE WHICH WOULD IT BE ?
>>
>>JAVA - tCL/Tkl - Perl or Other??
>>
>>What libs / Third Party variety extensions-addins / reporting tools /
>>database tools are there for your tool of choice ??
>>
>>What will work with SQL ie postgres ect...
>>
>>Is it RAD ??
>>
>>Why have you choosen it ??
>>
>>Like I said , I want to do database apps and general business programing.
>>Not games ect...
>>
>>
>>
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