Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! Lincong
--- On Mon, 6/15/09, David G. Mackay mackay_d@bellsouth.net wrote:
From: David G. Mackay mackay_d@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 3:16 PM
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that
are very unhappy with
the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have
on them.
Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that
python does not
consider backwards compatibility to be
important. This shouldn't have
come as a surprise. By comparison, perl has been
around longer and
Judging by some of the comments on the fedora-devel list, it did anyway.
through more changes and yet about the only thing you
might have to
check on a program written for perl 1.x to run under
5.x would be
whether you have @ in double-quoted strings that you
wanted to remain
literal.
I used to do a lot of coding in perl, but I found that I liked python better. I still like python for quick and dirty one-offs, but I'm not going to use it for large and persistent projects.
One other consideration is that perl probably has the
current advantage
in terms of available code library modules.
Pretty much anything you
can imagine doing has already been done and
contributed to CPAN so often
the code you have to write yourself is trivial with
the modules doing
the bulk of the work. Java may be catching up in
this regard but I
don't think there is a central place to find available
code.
Google? ;)
I guess the real question is how well java is going to prosper under Oracle's ownership. Then again, with openjdk, it might not matter too much.
Dave
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