<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">by way of discussion, I wonder if any
part of Perl's lagging is caused by modules falling out of support by ActiveState's
release of Perl. One example that comes to mind is GD::Graph.
We built some web-based lines-of-code graphing/trending programs,
and over the course of time, the GD packages were no longer built or bundled
with ActiveState's Perl.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We have also had trouble with Microsoft's
CommonDialog control no longer working from our Perl command-line programs.
Even some Tk stuff has broken with the most recent release of Perl.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As a language, Perl is cool.
It has made some pretty difficult tasks, reasonable. We're starting
to look a C# and the .NET framework, because MS has seemingly taken a Perlesque
approach to the language and provided soooo many libraries and components.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As always, we plan on using (at least
what we think is) the right tool for the right job, and Perl is so versatile.</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Go to www.perl.com, and click on the "Improving
Perl's Tools"<br>
graphic in the upper left corner, for an interesting article. The<br>
author feels that one reason that Java is eating Perl's lunch in<br>
the enterprise is that Perl's development tools, which for most<br>
JAPHs are simply vi or emacs and PerlTidy, are many years behind<br>
Java's. He talks about ECLIPSE, and other IDEs, that could be<br>
enhanced to close this gap. It's a well written and extensively<br>
researched article, so check it out!<br>
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-Tim<br>
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