Re: Perl of the Future

I would hope none of my home/office would be written in Perl. It'd be nice to have an API that some enterprising hacker could code up a Perl interface to, but Perl is most definitely not suited to that type of embedded work.

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Re: Re: Perl of the Future by jdtoronto (Prior) on Dec 02, 2003 at 16:20 UTC
Absolutely. Over the years I have done a lot of work where embedded processors are used. In 'BIG' processor projects you will see some C being used, but in a lot of the work it is all in assembler. However as time and technology advances, and fewer people understand how to write in assembler, the balance is moving towards bigger processors and C. In a lot of embedded work a $1.50 CPU is okay, but a $4 part blows the budget entirely! jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl of the Future by Anonymous Monk on Dec 02, 2003 at 15:00 UTC
Perl is most definitely not suited to that type of embedded work I'm pretty sure you meant to say that Perl is most definetly not yet* suited* .... :D	[reply]