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RE: JARTUP (Just Another Reason to Use Perl)
by little (Curate) on Sep 28, 2000 at 22:16 UTC
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Mustn't be interpreted as an evidence for Perl's superioity, just as evidence for the fact that people stuff the internet with useless comments on wheter a programming language "sucks" or "rules" in their opinion.
The more intersting question would be: What is the best solution for a task - measured only on criteria like : availability - installation requirements - support needs - etc pp. negotiating personal precedence.
Perl is a powerfull tool, but some solutions require different tools. Plain said: Have you ever tried to replace a DBMS with a perl script only because it would be possible ???
And just b.t.w could there be any reason for the massive use of VB by several admins just to get quick solutions?
Have a nice day
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Agreed absolutely that you should use the right tool for the job. Know the limits of each tool, and don't engage in blind advocacy.
Besides which people tend to pay more attention to your advocacy when you have demonstrated that you try to offer what you consider the best answer in all situations.
As for VB, here are its advantages in my opinion. It is quite good for building quick and dirty GUI interfaces to use on Windows, and Microsoft's integration of it with their line of products, which are widely used. I don't like it as a language, but when the problem fits I reach for VB, not Perl. (OTOH I angle things so that the problem does not often fit...)
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Ok, I admit it, I use perl incessantly, and I love every second of it, but lets be perfectly honest, there is a right tool for every job. If I'm doing list processing, a LISP variant is probably the right tool. Logical analysis, better look at prolog if I want to get the job done quick. Writing to the processor? Writing an OS? Better look at C and ASM. Lets not forget that Larry Wall and the Porters write perl, and love perl, certainly as much as anyone else around here, and they write it in C. What am I saying??? Right tool, right job... Perl is a GREAT tool, it's the programmer's all purpose chainsaw! I doubt that Quake IV will be written in perl, however.
Just Another Perl Backpacker
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Petruchio,
So please feel free to e-mail it (or even a link) to me.
And yes, I agree to all who say, that something people like so much that they point out their good experiences with it, seems to be good and efficient.
But does that imply that all other solutions are worse?
I don't trust statistics except those I've made up :-))
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RE: JARTUP (Just Another Reason to Use Perl)
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2000 at 22:43 UTC
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I don't know if this counts as a comment on the web page's suckiness, but I'd sort of suggest that instead of plotting $rules/$sucks, you plot 10*log($rules/$sucks)/log(10). Then instead of having everything that sucks crammed into the small space below 1.0, you'd have things that rule be above 0, things that suck below 0, and it'd be obvious that something that was -6 sucked about as well as something that was 6 ruled -- as opposed to having to compare 0.25 with 4...
BlaisePascal, who's work computer, with all his cookies, chose today as a good day to die...
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