From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T02:09:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

On 12 Aug 2005, at 17:45, Lothar Scholz wrote:
[snip]
> AH> Perl's big advantage is that it's a nice flexible language that
> AH> enable you to build applications quickly and reliably (despite  
> what
> AH> some people say :)
>
> I think it's biggest advantage is that is is so long out there, that
> it just has its market share. And it won that market share via the
> sysadmins - for which is was always designed from the beginning.

There are certainly bits of Perl I dislike, and there is much that is  
harder than it should be, but given a choice between Java, Perl and  
PHP I'd pick Perl almost every time.

Now if you added Ruby or Lisp to the mix I might have to think hard :-)

Adrian