I don't know how big your project is. If it is considerably big, it could be a wise decision to use multiple different languages. Of course, your company needs good programmers for each language, to be able to deliver this kind of design, and you need good designers knowing which language can deliver which section the best, and how to glue them together.

You have to analyze how many components your system will have, and how tightly they are related to each other. Those seriously affect whether multi-language is a good choice, and how each component can be put together, so they deliver the best.

For what you want to do, most of the main languages deliver all what you required. It is not a difficult decision to make, and it is not a bad decision to use Perl.

I have used Perl to process huge log files from our production systems, and never saw a problem with it, either memory usgae or speed (seriously it is amazing that there was absolutely no speed problem.)

It is not very clear whether you need to get into those bits. It is not a problem for Perl to handle bits, but in this sense, c would be a better choice (only regard looking into bits). Looking into bits is quite different from looking into bytes.

As for GUI, depends on how complex it is, Tk has no problem to deliver, but be careful, Tk code is extreamly difficult to layout and maintain, I tried Tk in one of my project, and to be frank not very impressed. Java is one of the good choices for GUI.

Last but not the least (absolutely not the least), if you need to do it quick, go with Perl, for sure.

In reply to Re: is perl the best tool for this job ? by pg
in thread is perl the best tool for this job ? by spurperl

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