<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > January, 2006. > > * OO Perl/Perl6 -- Perl has worked real well for us, but we have > doubts that it is the best technology, and we want to make a serious > attempt to look at other things.
It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't sound like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that somehow you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of groups. I don't expect you're going to have much luck. The fact that you list Perl 6 shows you aren't following Perl's development very closely. Perl 6 is not on the near horizon, and even as an avid Perl enthusiast I'd say you'd have to be insane to jump on it for production use as soon as it is. That said, Perl is still one of the best choices for both Web and admin scripting, and I don't see that you'd gain anything by rewriting all of your existing code to Ruby or Python just for the sake of saying you now use Ruby or Python (not that there's anything wrong with either, but why rewrite code for the sake of rewriting it?). If you wrote terrible and unreadable Perl code, what's really going to stop you from writing terrible and unreadable Ruby and Python code? That's more a statement on your programmers and lack of in-house style than the language. C# isn't too bad for Web scripting and quick GUIs, but I've never used it for admin scripting and the downside is that it takes a lot of effort to do tasks in .Net that are simple in Perl/Python/Ruby (particularly database work). I wouldn't use C/C++ for the web, but there's nothing stopping you. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
