Yes, and with Perl, if you're not in Unix or Linux, you're second class! I don't even like Java (far.too.wordy.for.me), but let's not pretend that Perl doesn't heavily favour certain platforms as well.

I think you have that backwards. Unix-type users tend to favor languages like Perl for more heavy-duty programming than to Windows users because of their background (mainly because of sh). They're used to writing short little shell scripts as well as longer more complex C programs, and Perl is heavily endowed with both. Thus, you see more Perl usage on Unix systems. The language itself isn't really specific to, either, though. The Win32 support is actually on par or better than the Unix support (note the number of well-written, Windows-only modules on CPAN). It's just not as heavily used because the background of my Windows programmers is not scripted/interpreted languages. It's .exe files and the C++ source that underlies them. Java is the natural extension of that.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Perl and Java by Hrunting
in thread Perl and Java by Chady

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