[sf-perl] One more reason why I use Perl...
David Fetter
david at fetter.org
Tue May 11 11:24:42 PDT 2010
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:17:14AM -0700, David Alban wrote:
> wouldn't the comparison be more fair if they compared
> HTML::Entities::decode_entities() source with the c++ and java
> versions?
I don't think so.
CPAN is Perl's killer application, and no other language I know of has
anything really comparable to it. Yes, I'm aware CPAN has warts, but
what other language even *has* a "C*AN" that is the standard source of
reusable code? "Is the" (existence and uniqueness) is crucial in this
assessment.
People are working on a CPGAN, but that's at least a couple of years
in the future, and it's modeled explicitly on CPAN.
Cheers,
David.
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