Ok, I'll bite. I'll prolly ruffle a few feathers. But perl does indeed rock as do many things in computer science and software engineering.
# It supports quick development. I quickly came up with some working scripts within 1 hour.
# It has strong regexp support. That's exactly what we wanted.
# Fast, it is not a problem for Perl to process series of big files with lightening speed.
Point 1 - There are many languages that are quick to write in. Python, perl, Ruby, Java, C++, not asm, C maybe if you are using the GTK and/or GLIB (not glibc). Just a matter of knowing the tools, eh? ddd for C/C++, eclipse for java. I'm sure there's good stuff for Ruby.

Point 2 - I cannot think of many languages that don't have regexp support. POSIX and perl's implementations of re's have been pushed into many other languages, Either as access to the C library implementations or language native versions. jakarta-oro, a pure java implementation of RE's familiar to perl users. Sun releases one that is similar, but has it's smaller differences. (btw, php, ruby and others support re's)

Point 3 - Isn't this a case of just (os and in language) buffering? Java's IO layer isn't particularly bad. Were you thinking something specific?

perl definitely rawks, but I believe it's more for things like, it's very easy to create functions on the fly, or creating code that's very English like. Maybe even for terseness in some cases. A very clean base, vs php, but an extensive amount of modules (via CPAN). Being losely typed is nice too. No Integer.parseInt(....)s.

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In reply to Re: Perl rocks!!! by exussum0
in thread Perl rocks!!! by pg

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