Re^2: Perl in the Enterprise

I think Perl is fine for "control systems" with one caveat..... how fast the respose time is. It might not be suitable for guidance systems which require microsecond accuracy, but it will do fine for things like irrigation controls and remote cameras.

If you want to rant on something that shouldn't be used for control systems, pick on the OS, like the virus prone Microsoft Windows. The OS platform has more to do with reliability than the program language. In my opinion. I would trust a Perl script running on BSD, more than a Visual C++ app running on MSWindows.

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Re^3: Perl in the Enterprise by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2006 at 18:18 UTC
If you want to rant on something that shouldn't be used for control systems, pick on the OS, like the virus prone Microsoft Windows. Control systems don't typically have an OS. Sometimes they don't even use a microcontroller, just dedicated hardware. When they do use a microcontroller, Ada is typically used directly on the hardware. The author proposed replacing Ada with Perl on submarine control systems; as I've said before, it's an inappropriate choice.	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl in the Enterprise
by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2006 at 18:18 UTC

If you want to rant on something that shouldn't be used for control systems, pick on the OS, like the virus prone Microsoft Windows.

Control systems don't typically have an OS. Sometimes they don't even use a microcontroller, just dedicated hardware. When they do use a microcontroller, Ada is typically used directly on the hardware.

The author proposed replacing Ada with Perl on submarine control systems; as I've said before, it's an inappropriate choice.

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