I've done work in Java, Perl and C# - I've also worked with C, C++, Informix 4GL, COBOL, RPG/III, BASIC, VB, Delphi, Clipper and assembler... If I wanted to trawl through every sourcefile of every system I had ever worked on I could probably go on for ever. If asked I describe myself as a programmer not as a $foo programmer where $foo is some one of the above listed programming languages. If I am put in front of a random programming task without any other constraints then I might choose Perl or I might choose C# depending on how quickly the solution appears in either of those languages, for a certain class of problem Perl will almost certainly win, whereas with another class C# might be prefered. However given a larger problem with pre-existing contraints I would not like to pre-judge the implementation language: the effort required to shoe-horn in a language based on my preference could screw the project.

Blind language advocacy is harmful in business led development.

/J\

In reply to Re^4: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article. by gellyfish
in thread "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article. by tomazos

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