perlquestion
Gremlin
I need as many opinions as i can get so please offer your suggestions or improvements to mine!<BR>
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I am a final year student of Electrical and Computer Engineerng at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. My final year project is a web based one and i coded the CGI scripts in perl.<BR>
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My presentation is coming up very soon and i am anticipating a major question when that time comes around.<BR><BR>
<I>"Why did you program in perl? why not c?"</I>
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the webservers are IIS on NT4 but these gave me too much
stress so i used a different machine with Apache and Active Perl (problems disappeared woo hooo!)<BR><BR>
ok so i know why i used perl:<BR>
1. i generally dont like to program in c since perl can so it with much less coding (hell these are simple enough applications why go through the stress).<BR><BR>
2. there is always more than one way to do it in perl.<BR>
3. There is a huge online community that offers great support and ready advice and assistance (thanks perlmonks!!)<BR>
4. hence, it is almost certain that someone else has done it before (or something close to it) so why re-invent the wheel??<BR>
5. there is a wealth of resources for perl (i cant say the same for c - but you may know better)<BR><BR>
But more importantly<BR>
no one in the university has used perl for projects before so it goes well that this is a new area of development.<BR>
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I need more concrete reasons why i should use perl over c for cgi applications or better wording for my reasons.<BR>
I want to hit them on the head (not literally) and let them know that perl is the way to go now... its time to explore it.<BR><BR>
I would appreciate your responses / comments / suggestions<BR>
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Regards<BR>
Gremlin