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- From: fsg@news.eden.com (Felix Sebastian Gallo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 10:30:42 -0600
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- In article <OZ.96Feb15103918@nexus.yorku.ca>,
- ozan s. yigit <oz@nexus.yorku.ca> wrote:
- >Felix Sebastian Gallo [amongst other things]
- >
- > ... Heck, even Java might be useful to someone. ...
- >
- >it already is, to more people than you are willing to admit.
-
- I wouldn't be so quick to characterise my likelihood of admission.
- Whatever I might say about Java being laughable and negligible,
- I think my record of designing an extension to Perl which provides
- to Perl all of the positive features of Java (albeit implemented
- correctly) speaks volumes about the respect that I have for the
- basic ideas of the language. I'm sure many people, starved for
- those basic features and realizing how important they are for
- the future of the Internet, truly and honestly believe that Java
- is more than a warmed-over set-top-box scripting language failure
- with massive architectural deficiencies and wholesale feature-
- borrowing from the most unpleasant language to be inflicted on
- the craft of software engineering since Cobol.
-
- And, they might be right, who knows? Allow me the position of
- being affably happy with the alternative, which may prove to
- find its own audience.
-
- >also expect a ground-level java for more perl-like tasks later this year.
-
- No offense meant to be sure, but I wouldn't use a ground-level java
- for perl-like tasks if I were dragged kicking and screaming to the altar.
- I don't use Fortran for writing video games, either.
-
- On the other hand, expect a high-level perl for more java-like tasks later
- this quarter. And just maybe you'll find that it's better to use a
- high-level language designed for data processing for data processing
- (i.e. Internet work) than to use a low-level language designed for
- operating systems implementation which has mutated into a strange
- cross-paradigmed object oriented language which has mutated
- into a curious scripting language.
-
- Don't be afraid of the future, ozan. :)
-
- Felix
-
-