2010/12/1 Jason Purdy <ja...@journalistic.com>: > To add my five cents, the thing that hurts me the most is that Perl is not > an accepted language when it comes to the differnet new platforms. > > Our work has adopted Drupal as a CMS and it's written in PHP. It would be > awesome if it was written in Perl, but as someone else posted in this > thread, we can pick up languages pretty easily (better than foreign > languages, no? ;)) and be productive in a few weeks. > > I'm also attracted to the new Android and iPad platforms, but there's no > Perl there, either.
Veering off-topic briefly. Perl is available through the android scripting engine http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ although only Java has first-class support with access to all the GUI and other stuff. You can run command-line perl no problem so you can script fetching things to your phone etc. You could also run a server in Perl and interact with it through the browser (I know of at least one python app that does this for android), F > There's no Perl when it comes to creating client-side web applications > (using JavaScript). > > IMHO, Perl is getting relegated to server-side/backend applications and when > more power is getting brought to the front, it's losing mindshare/focus. > > - Jason > > http://use.perl.org/~Purdy/journal/31280 > > On 11/24/2010 07:01 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> >> The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and >> we >> talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various >> events. >> >> Their "Perl person" then told me he would not use Perl now for a large >> application because: >> >> 1) Threads do not work well - they are better in Python and in Java. >> >> 2) Using signals and signal handlers regularly crashes perl. >> >> 3) He also mentioned that he thinks the OO system of Perl is a hack - >> that the objects are hash refs and there is no privacy. >> >> So I wonder what hurts *you* the most in Perl? >> >> Gabor >> >> -- >> Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ >> Perl Ecosystem Group http://perl-ecosystem.org/ >> >
