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Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 18, 2013 at 14:13 UTC

    I wonder ... when was this actually written? OK, the link you provide would have it in 2011, but it certainly sounds like something quite a bit older and just copied to that thread. "Perl is working towards Perl.NET in the future" ??? The comments regarding C# also sound like they come from before the introduction of generics, anonymous types and lambdas. Unless I'm forced to work with something as dated as WebForms I don't have to typecast too often. In general I find myself typecasting almost exclusively when working with something designed before generics and not updated.

    Jenda
    Enoch was right!
    Enjoy the last years of Rome.

      If they are writing about Perl.NET it must from like 2001, not 2011.
Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:44 UTC

    What is the point you're trying to make? You've simply posted someone elses answer to a question on another site, without any context. Do you have anything to add?

Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:34 UTC
      from http://cpan.org

      The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 120,503 Perl modules in 27,343 distributions, written by 10,570 authors, mirrored on 270 servers.

      from https://pypi.python.org/pypi

      The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language. There are currently 30088 packages here.

      from wikipedia:

      How to Lie with Statistics

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

        from ...

        The cited source denies the existence of these CPAN-like things

        And you're just quoting the same numbers they quoted, where is the lie?

Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by sedusedan (Monk) on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:59 UTC

    I have forgotten most of BASIC, but I don't remember it being whitespace-sensitive? FORTRAN, on the other hand, ...

      Basic and Python avoid semicolons and often use newlines as statement separators.

      Not what I would call "whitespace sensitive", but the whole OP was not very accurate.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Apr 18, 2013 at 14:38 UTC

    My comment on this? (offsite link) Blog entry of mine


    Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
    Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg
Re: Perl. The comparison to other languages.
by space_monk (Chaplain) on Apr 30, 2013 at 06:44 UTC

    A good comparison on the strengths and weaknesses of Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and Java would be worth reading.... but this isn't that article

    If any of my proposed solutions have minor errors, it's because I don't waste my genius on trivial matters. :-P
      Hello Try and have some respect for a program like Perl which has stood the test of time. It's used far and wide by many organizations and governmental agencies who's systems depend on Perl to make communicating with world-wide agencies a smooth experience. Humbleness goes a long way and no one is "genius"...just levels of knowledge. Peace to you and yours, c5aviator