[ale] Servlets Vs. Perl

[cfowler]

I'm going to write one for the community and call it

yafsl  "YA-FSELL"  I guess that would be how you would pronounce that.

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 15:09, Mike Lockhart wrote:
> I've actually been quite impressed with the performance of Ruby.  I've
> used it several times in the past year for some fairly heavy db
> maintenence scripts and network utils, ported over from perl (nothing
> against Perl, just wanted to try somthing different).  Granted it would
> be nice if there was a good, quality complier for it, but as a scripted
> language it's nice.  And it's 110% OO, thats probably the coolest thing
> about it, since ANYTHING can be an object.  
> 
> Check out http://www.ruby-lang.org if anyones interested in it.  
> 
> -- mike
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:33, cfowler wrote:
> > Speaking of Python, What is up with Ruby.
> > 
> > The last thing we need is another OO slow scripting language. 
> > 
> > Let the flames begin!
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:26, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, John Wells wrote:
> > > 
> > > > >     Mike> 3) I find the object oriented nature of Java to better lend
> > > > > Mike> itself to code organization and code reuse, so I end up
> > > > >     Mike> being more efficient.
> > > > >
> > > > >         Get Damian Conway's _Object Oriented Perl_.
> > > > 
> > > > Not to start a holy war here, but perl has some of the ugliest OO syntax
> > > > I've seen.  Java OOP results in cleaner code, for the most part.  Perl OOP
> > > > always feels like it's held together with a bunch of scotch tape.
> > > 
> > > Isn't this why Python is always the right answer :) So much for Holy Wars
> > > 
> > > Ben
> > > 
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