Perl compiles into an internal form and may not be the best choice for truly trivial scripts; if I needed a Hello World command I'd write it in PL/I or REXX. but when you're parsing an e-mail, parsing each URL, looking up each domain name and doing miscellaneous sanity checks, the start-up time for the compiler and interpreter is just noise, and I really wouldn't want to do it in HLASM, PL/I or REXX. For trivial scripts I use REXX or bash.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Wayne Bickerdike [wayn...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 8:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 Not sure how it works under the covers but my "hello, world" test took forever to run first time through. On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:46 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Sometimes people write in what their employer knows. I once had to process > SMF data in COBOL because the president of the company didn't like PL/I. > > Given a free hand, I use the best tool for the job. I like PL/I and REXX a > lot more than Perl, but I use Perl when I need, e.g., packages from CPAN. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of scott Ford [idfli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:59 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming > language of 2020 > > Jack, > > Personally, I think *sometimes people write in what they know. If they know > C it’s C or if they know JavaScript , it’s JavaScript. I know companies > aren’t paying for education, which I feel ultimately hurts them in a lot of > ways. I learned C and experimented on Z/OS and liked its abilities in > threading etc. I know Charles enjoys C ++ , I think that’s great , haven’t > per se learned it yet. > > Scott > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:51 PM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 May 2020 11:44:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > > > > >+1 on the name. > > > > > >I read an article on branding once that said if consumers can mess up > > your name, they will, so be aware of that when you pick a name. The East > > Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is universally known in the SF Bay > > Area as "East Bay Mud." > > > > > >Goo, with its nod to "++", Google and "object oriented" would have been > a > > great name, had they had a sense of humor. > > > > > >G would be good, with its homage to C and its predecessor B. > > > > > But they're terrible search keys unless your command syntax > > supports a mixture of whole-word and substring keys. I know > > of none that do. > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > Scott Ford > IDMWORKS > z/OS Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
