The trendy in management circles was not intended as a cheap shot. Simply an observation, and an accurate one at that. If you wanted to learn a languague then there are likely to be more Java Jobs than Perl Jobs in the forseeable future. Sad IMHO but true.

As you correctly note speed wise Java sits C C++ Java Procedural Perl OO Perl. But as always it is application dependent and speed is always better if the algotithms are better in any lang. For example at Re: Performance Question I showed one monk how a small change in approach could speed processing time for a large file from 166 hours (1 week) to < 6 hours. In this case the bottleneck was disk IO so it would not really matter what language you used.

cheers

tachyon

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