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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 16:25:28 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:44:47 GMT
From: mufti@pls.com (Saad Mufti)
Message-Id: <1995Sep25.174447.23298@pls.com>
Organization: Personal Library Software, Inc.
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <43mipn$d53@news1.delphi.com>, <nagleDF6IEA.8EJ@netcom.com>, <MSFRIEDM.95Sep20173811@bingster.us.oracle.com>
Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <MSFRIEDM.95Sep20173811@bingster.us.oracle.com>,
Mark S. Friedman <msfriedm@us.oracle.com> wrote:
>In article <nagleDF6IEA.8EJ@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>
>* >carr@fast.cs.utah.edu (Harold Carr) wrote:
>
>* >>What do programmers who implement and use real programming
>* >>languages like, Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Icon, etc; use
>* >>instead of TCL or PERL?
>*
>* Either Visual Basic or Java is a decent choice for little programs.
>
>Tcl is an embeddable scripting language. Perl is mainly a system
>administration and shell script language. Both are primarily Unix
>based. In what sense are Visual Basic or Java appropriate for the
>typical uses of Tcl or Perl?
>
>To start with, Visual Basic runs only on PC's and Java isn't even in
>Beta yet!
>
A good very high level object oriented language that offers a good compromise
b/w scripting and general purpose development and is not too Unix specific is
Python. Visit http://www.python.org/ for more info. To my knowledge, Python has
stable ports on all sorts of Unix platforms as well as Windows, Windows/NT and
Macs.
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Saad Mufti
Personal Library Software