[Wellington-pm] How much perl is out there?

[Steve Kieu]

Ruby looks promising. I have been learning it for several days and feel that
I has the power of most of others (perl, python, java, etc..)

The downside of it is that it does not get installed by default in my Lucid
desktop :-(



On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Dale DuRose <dale.durose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whats the cool languages these days?
>
> I've away just adapted to what the organization I'm working for is using. I
> dont really have any favorite language. I hate every language for its bad
> quirks. But i really hate python big time.
>
>
>
> On 30/05/2010 1:30 p.m., Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> Dale DuRose<dale.durose at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>
>>> On 30/05/2010 10:44 a.m., Cliff Pratt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 29/05/10 19:44, dale.durose wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have a question is perl still being used commonly in the new
>>>>> zealand IT industry? I know in the past it was used for most web
>>>>> applications. So i imagine its holding strong with the system
>>>>> administrators out there?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I'd be surprised if it were "used for most web applications". Something
>>>> like
>>>> PHP would be more likely used for that.
>>>>
>>>> We use it mostly for sysadmin stuff.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> About 10 years ago it was used for most web applications. Maybe even
>>> longer
>>> than 10.
>>>
>>>
>> Heh.  History.  You tell the kids today that Perl once had the reputation
>> that
>> PHP has, that it was used for all those awful throw-away one-shot CGI
>> things
>> that were the bane of security administrators lives, and they don't
>> believe
>> you.
>>
>> Back then we had to hand-code our requests out of CGI.pm, too, and it was
>> up-hill both ways.
>>
>>         Daniel
>>
>> Seriously: Perl was, once, the king of CGI.  These days?  Big in a whole
>> bunch
>> of places, mostly by virtue of graduating from a "cool" language to a
>> serious
>> one.
>>
>> It joins FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, and other luminaries that are no longer
>> the
>> cool way to do exciting new things, but which get plenty of real work
>> done.
>>
>>
>
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