Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perl has a big advantage from the perspective of the initial programmer, but > a very big disadvantage from the perspective of the maintainer, and this is > "There are more ways to do it". I don't see this as a disadvantage. Different ways may be be

Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Octavian Rasnita
]> To: "Nath, Alok (STSD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: RE: Perl versus other scripting language -Original Message- From: Nath, Alok (STSD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:40 AM To: beginners@perl.org S

Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 3/30/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jean-Rene David wrote: > * Rob Dixon [2007.03.30 08:30]: >> - You could add Lua to the list. But then remove it - it's awful. > > FYI, I have read much harsher comments about perl on the lua mailing > list. I'm not surprised. People will always te

Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Rob Dixon
Jean-Rene David wrote: * Rob Dixon [2007.03.30 08:30]: - You could add Lua to the list. But then remove it - it's awful. FYI, I have read much harsher comments about perl on the lua mailing list. I'm not surprised. People will always tend to take sides, however senseless it may be. I ignor

RE: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Gargiullo
-Original Message- From: Nath, Alok (STSD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:40 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Perl versus other scripting language Hi Perlers ! In my project we are using lot of scripts (for various job launching activities

Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Rob Dixon [2007.03.30 08:30]: > - You could add Lua to the list. But then remove > it - it's awful. FYI, I have read much harsher comments about perl on the lua mailing list. I ignored them at the time and will do the same here, though I wouldn't mind hearing more substantive criticisms. That i

Re: Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Rob Dixon
Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote: Hi Perlers ! In my project we are using lot of scripts (for various job launching activities )some written in bash, some in perl.It's completely chaos and not organized. Now we want to revamp the whole scripting framework using some high level scripting lang

Perl versus other scripting language

2007-03-30 Thread Nath, Alok (STSD)
Hi Perlers ! In my project we are using lot of scripts (for various job launching activities )some written in bash, some in perl.It's completely chaos and not organized. Now we want to revamp the whole scripting framework using some high level scripting lan