[Omaha.pm] Perl, Python, Ruby or PHP ...

Jake Churchill reynacho at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 12:18:39 PST 2007


Having also taken Bob's Programming on the Internet course, I would like to
post my vote for the continued use of Perl.  I think once you learn Perl,
all other scripting languages are pretty easy to learn.  Similar to how
after learning C/C++, Java is a breeze.

-Jake

On 2/28/07, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 14:08, Robert Fulkerson wrote:
> > Greetings All!
> >
> >      UNO would like to create a two-course sequence of web-related
> > programming.  We currently have my course, which is taught in Perl and
> > another course that covers similar content but doesn't require any
> previous
> > programming experience that is taught in Python.  Essentially, we're
> going
> > use the current Python course as the intro course and then my course as
> the
> > advanced course.  We're going to standardize on one language, however,
> and
> > Perl, Ruby and Python (and heck, even PHP) are all candidates.  The two
> > languages at the top of the heap are Perl and Python, since work has
> > already been done in both languages, thus reducing the amount of work to
> > create the two-course sequence.  I, of course, want the language to be
> Perl
> > and have my own set of reasons, but I thought I'd cast a wide net out to
> > everyone for ideas that I can bring to the table on Tuesday.
> >
> >      So, fire away.  Why should we continue to teach Perl instead of
> Python
> > at UNO?  Other than the fact that it's the coolest language ever?  :)
>
> Perl has done some very heavy lifting in the Web app world.  Python is
> gaining
> favor among the admin community:
>
> One Laptop Per Child-OS and GUI written in python
> Ubuntu Linux-All scripting done in python.
>
> Since the course is for the Web, I'd vote for perl.
>
> DT
> >
> >      Thanks!
> >      -- b
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