Re: Re: Re: There's Only One Way To Do It

[jdporter]

As for "cross-platform", it depends on what you mean by that. Currently Perl is supported on hundreds more platforms than Java. "Write once, run anywhere" is still a myth for Java, but practical reality for Perl.

As for multi-threaded GUI application in Perl, there are (of course) many ways to do it. One good way that comes to mind is to use POE, which integrates very nicely with Tk. Cookbook example.

I think you'll have to be a lot more creative if you're trying to come up with examples of applications that Can't Be Done In Perl.

[adrianh]

Not that I'm a huge fan of Java as a language, but...

Currently Perl is supported on hundreds more platforms than Java. "Write once, run anywhere" is still a myth for Java, but practical reality for Perl.

This, of course, depends on what platforms you're interested in running your applications on. While Java runs on fewer platforms than Perl (although I don't think it would be hundreds fewer) it runs on several useful platforms that Perl doesn't run on at all (the opposite is of course also true).

I think you'll have to be a lot more creative if you're trying to come up with examples of applications that Can't Be Done In Perl.

How about anything running on the 100 million Java/Symbian devices that Nokia are going to be shipping this year :-)

[eserte]

How about anything running on the 100 million Java/Symbian devices that Nokia are going to be shipping this year :-)

It seems that Nokia is not too happy about Java. See here.

[adrianh]

It seems that Nokia is not too happy about Java. See here.

Interesting - if it wasn't for the inconvenient fact that it's not true (well, the Perl bit anyway - they're targeting Python :-)

Due to its size and architecture I think it's unlikely that you'll see Perl 5 on small devices like phones. Perl 6 via Parrot - much more feasable.