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[Karen Shaeffer]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:39:23AM -0700, wayne at qconcepts.net wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> 
> (Avoiding the urge to flame horribly due to religious persecution) ;-)

Agreed. I am not denegrating perl or those who use it. I am simply stating
I prefer to code in C. Let me apologize for being less than clear. It was
late when I wrote that...

> 
> Define what you think is serious work you would avoid perl for. For web
> application development, (IMNSHO) it's wonderful. For text processing, it
> is far superior to anything else I've used. 

Web applications are not my forte. So...

My statement should in no way be interpreted to mean I think perl is
inadequate for serious work. Quite to the contrary: I think perl is a
wonderful language.

> 
> I wouldn't use perl to write, say, a GUI application. I think C is the
> wrong tool for the job here as well. This is just a matter of using the
> right tool for the job.

gtk is doing quite well these days. But, again, it really is a matter of
preference of those developing a given application. I prefer C. Perl is
my second favorite language at the moment. I will probably rank C++ second
and Perl third at some point in the future... My preferences are not in any
way presented to suggest other views are incorrect. My preferences are
clearly related to the genre of applications that I work with.

> Wayne Earl <wayne at qconcepts.net>

Thanks for your comments Wayne.

c,
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 Karen Shaeffer
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 shaeffer at neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com