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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:56:28 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 26 Sep 1995 21:41:40 GMT
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Message-Id: <449s2k$hu8@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
Organization: scant
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <43mipn$d53@news1.delphi.com>, <nagleDF6IEA.8EJ@netcom.com>, <MSFRIEDM.95Sep20173811@bingster.us.oracle.com>
Reply-To: tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
:-> In comp.lang.tcl, msfriedm@us.oracle.com writes:
: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!
Perl is used for CGI scripting and general tools work, and runs
not just on Unix, but also VMS, MVS, MsDOS, NT, Amigas, Macs, and
many other systems as well. I would not say its use is restricted
to Unix sysadmins, and if you haven't looked at it in the last five years,
then you are probably working under some misunderstandings about the
language.
--tom