Well. First, I think that you don't understand much about Perl, and Java too. How about you learn more, study more, and after this you will be able to make some real comment. Opinion without informations doesn't have value!

About the speed of threads of Perl. Well, send the test codes, and you will see that all the "lovers of Perl" will have a open mind to analyze it.

Other thing, never say that Java is fast! It isn't! It's the slowest language that exist, and sun know that. I'm a developer of Java too, in the security area, and we know that Java is very slow. Some times we need to implement things in C/C++, and link to Java, because of this.

About the OO. Well. Perl has OO, and has everything that OO can bring. If you think that Perl doesn't have OO, or have missed something, tell us. Is not hard to implement anything on Perl, since every one can do this! We always have our code!

And if you don't know, sun help a lot the Perl community, since they respect us! If I'm not wrong they made some donation for CPAN with a new server when CPAN was slow!

About Perl is dead. Humm... I think that something that is always growing, and being better, is alive. With all the respect of Java, since I use it too, I think that Java is more dead than other thing. Don't forget that Java is only Java because they made a good marketing (is a commercial initiative of sun). and Perl don't need, since it self made the marketing.

You say that "never saw a single serious project in Perl". Well, this only show that you don't know nothing about nothing. Man, Yahoo! use Perl, and was fully made in Perl. Without Perl Yahoo!, and other web sites, will doesn't exist. No more comments!

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

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