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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 06:55:01 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4gshk5INNf9v@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <gperkinsDn90ww.Gu4@netcom.com>,
- Glen C. Perkins <gperkins@netcom.com> wrote:
- >Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu> writes:
- >
- >>Glen C. Perkins wrote:
- >>>
- >>> opinions, fight it out. The result has been a significant
- >>> expansion in the number of languages I use, rather than
- >>> just using C for everything. (Actually, the truth is,
- >>> it has expanded my repertoire enough that I *never* use
- >>> C for *anything* anymore!)
- >>>
- >
- >>Hmm... Why do you never use C anymore? It sounds like you
- >>are fanaticizing over languages instead of just using the
- >>right one for whatever job you have at hand.
- >
- >I don't use C anymore because I don't have any problems
- >that C handles better than Perl or Java or Lisp or
- >Delphi (which is for the whole system, not the Pascal.)
-
- Makes sense. It sounds like you just aren't writing system-level code that also
- needs to be portable.
-
- If you decided to, say, write a ray tracer or a little OS kernel, you might
- want to migrate back to C. :)
-
- >If I wrote drivers or spreadsheet recalc engines, I'd
- >use C. I don't. I use Java for web applets, Perl for
- >CGI and local file processing utilities, Lisp for genetic
- >algorithms experiments, and Delphi for commercial windows
- >apps (series of vertical market products).
- >
- >Thanks to the availability of these wonderful tools, I
- >don't use C for anything anymore. Are these the rantings
- >of a "fanatic"? You be the judge.... ;-)
-
- Not at all. If you did want to write drivers or "recalc engines", you'd be back
- in C in a jiffy. Or just write code that is portable to systems that aren't
- blessed with Delphi support from Boreland.
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