Re: Re: Perl vs Java in Heavyweight Filesystem Processing

This is completely irrelevant as you didn't program anything in Java, you ported a perl script to a python script, and run the python script via a Python interpreter implemented in Java. That harldy qualifies a Java "program".

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Re: Re: Re: Perl vs Java in Heavyweight Filesystem Processing by submersible_toaster (Chaplain) on May 26, 2003 at 07:35 UTC
Correct - I programmed nothing in java, but ultimately the python ran in a python interpreter, implemented in java. So what java classes does the j-python interpreter call for file IO? For those unfamiliar with Java's java.io.File package, consider yourselves lucky. In comparison to Perl's File modules, Java's API is clumsy, slow, and incomplete. The text processing piece is a no brainer; clearly Perl has the upper hand. Irrelevant ? I can't really say, I don't program in java. hunting /. grammar nazis since when?	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Perl vs Java in Heavyweight Filesystem Processing
by submersible_toaster (Chaplain) on May 26, 2003 at 07:35 UTC

Correct - I programmed nothing in java, but ultimately the python ran in a python interpreter, implemented in java. So what java classes does the j-python interpreter call for file IO?

For those unfamiliar with Java's java.io.File package, consider yourselves lucky. In comparison to Perl's File modules, Java's API is clumsy, slow, and incomplete. The text processing piece is a no brainer; clearly Perl has the upper hand.

Irrelevant ? I can't really say, I don't program in java.

hunting /. grammar nazis since when?

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