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by FreeRadical Jetpacking for Nelson on July 8th, 2007

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What are your thoughts about PERL as a scripting language?

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  • by Amir Aharoni on July 8th, 2007

    Amir Aharoni

    Depends on what do you mean by "scripting language".

    If it means "small language which can't do what real programming languages do" - then Perl IS a real programming language, although you can use for small programs, just as you can use Java for small programs. Except that it is much easier to write a small program in Perl than in Java.

    If it means "a language for writing shell scripts for Unix" - then i think that it is indeed an excellent language for replacing bash, ksh, csh etc.

    If it means "a language for writing small Windows programs" - then i think that it is very good for writing console-based programs, and you also get a bonus: if you write it portably, then it will run Unix, Windows, Mac, etc. (see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html ). If you want to write programs with graphical user interface, you can do it very nicely in Perl using Perl/Gtk or Perl/Tk (Gtk looks much better, but Tk is more popular...)

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  • by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on July 8th, 2007

    Nelson - Jetpacking from bed

    On a UNIX platform, I am quite impressed with it. On a Windows platform, not so much. I may be biased or have had unusual experiences, but most Windows centric programmers that I've worked with are not as experienced with command line programming.

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