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Re^3: Perl and open source

by exussum0 (Vicar)
on Nov 14, 2004 at 02:36 UTC ( #407651=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

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Tradition. Since a lot of OSs and user environments are written in C, a widget set in C would make sense. I.e. XWindows and what not. For java, that was backed by Sun from the get-go. Have strong OOP, graphical stuff, networking and so on. C++, I can only think of the MFC and qt off of the top of my head. The only toolkits for C++ i can think of are people who wish to make a profit on peple who want a graphical interface written in C++ instead of just wrapped. C++, I *think* has more biz people interested, as OOP is usually good for representing biz like ideas in an organized way. Companies like "organization". Perl had it tacked on later, no?

So java is company backed. C++ is profit backed. C is done sort of as a default.

perl has tk and all of the C bindings sorta, but I think it falls more in line with python and ruby. They aren't native languages so to speak. They are open and not profit backed.. well.. didn't nasa sponsor it in some way when mr wall was witht hem? Anyway, I dont' know of many OSs written in perl. And whhomever sponsors perl doesn't seem to have that huge of an interest in graphical interfaecs. Not bad.. just true.. I think.

Am i at all accurate on any of this?

Then B.I. said, "Hov' remind yourself nobody built like you, you designed yourself"

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Re^4: Perl and open source
by pg (Canon) on Nov 14, 2004 at 04:02 UTC
    "perl... but I think it falls more in line with python and ruby."

    Your assertion is so true. Perl and Java actually fall in two different categories in real life, and they are like apple and orange. Java was never targeted to compete with Perl, and I don't think Larry Wall's target was or is to compete with Java, or even create a language for a close purpose.

    One of my co-worker created a suite we used to build our system from cvs, and deploy it to testing and production environments, that was a good fit for Perl. Nobody in the team ever questioned whether we should build that suite in Java.

    In my real life, I never had a situation where people argured about whether we should do so and so in Java or Perl, but there are times they discuss whether something should be done in .Net or Java. This shows that, there is usually(I added this word after read sporty's reply) a clear cut between Perl and things like Java and .Net. They are just created for different application areas.

      I don't completely agree on the clear cut part. Their intentions are kinda .. different, but you can accomplish, quite well, a lot of things in either language. For instance, using a language, i'm implementing an architecture for doing a lot of reporting like manipulations. The data is being fetched from the database and what not, but the underlying things that can be cached and redone w/o going back to the db, is done in that architecture. Am i doing it in perl or java? Either would be good fits, if they were the only mitigating factors, eh?

      But you are right. There are some things that are a lot easier in some languages. I love to say it: perl is quite expresive and easy to read if you are consistent, which for at least expressing certain things, make it really easy. Basic example, the merge sort. In java and c, i have to start allocating memory carefully, where in perl, I can be less careful, and do it in fewer lines, making the algorithm more prominent.. well.. if I don't start obfuing it.. which I won't. :)


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