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- From: gperkins@netcom.com (Glen C. Perkins)
- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Message-ID: <gperkinsDnMs3s.Lzn@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 08:11:51 GMT
- Sender: gperkins@netcom7.netcom.com
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- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Right.
-
- >If you decided to, say, write a ray tracer or a little OS kernel, you might
- >want to migrate back to C. :)
-
- Right again. Unless I felt *really* ambitious and decided to do
- it in assembler (at least the stuff inside the loops.)
-
- I don't have any such projects, so I don't use C for anything.
-
- > >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.
- >--
-
- Right.
-
- At the moment, though, I'm busy dreaming of a day when I can
- write Java apps and implement the classes in any language I
- want (say 80% Java and 20% Perl for my needs), compile them
- all into the same Java bytecode and, thanks to just-in-time
- compilers that execute code so fast it bends the laws of physics,
- have it all execute as fast as if I'd written it all in C.
-
- Of course, by that time, Latte will have blown the doors off
- Delphi and Visual Basic in terms of ease with which professional-
- looking apps can be "laid out" (versus "programmed")... ;-)
-
- __Glen Perkins__
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