Re: More Perl or More Java for Our Prototyping?

PerlSearcher:

Your question is far too open-ended, and possibly inflammable. But I'll give you my standard answer to this type of question:

What language(s) are you fastest at coding?

What language(s) are most popular at your site?

What web server are you running?

&tc., &tc., &tc.

BTW: I'm not asking you to answer my questions. I'm just basically telling you that you'll have to do a bit more thinking before you can frame the right questions. Also, you'll want to ask it in a language-neutral forum to get (somewhat) less biased responses. After all ... everyone here is a perl fan! Once you choose your development platform, &tc., ask us perl questions!

...roboticus

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Re^2: More Perl or More Java for Our Prototyping? by PerlSearcher (Novice) on Jul 18, 2007 at 00:57 UTC
I posted question here because I need help.... Could anyone give some personal opinion on these architectural related questions? Am I choosing Perl for doing the right things? This is just trying to understand what Perl is suitable and not suitable? What Perl is good at and not good at... In deed, these are open questions. I am not requesting perfect answers. I just would like to get some sense or get a poll from Wisdom.... Thanks PerlSearcher	[reply]
Re^3: More Perl or More Java for Our Prototyping? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Jul 18, 2007 at 12:17 UTC
PerlSearcher: If you're asking these questions, then you don't know perl. If you're going to program the system yourself then learning and using perl would be a fine choice. Using code from CPAN will give you much of the capabilities you want. But your question is still too open ended: what kinds of graphs do you want to draw? What data volumes are you interested in? Since you've provided so few constraints, nearly anything you're told could be a good answer, no matter if it's useful to you or not. Your project might be best implemented as a VBA script in Excel, a perl program, flash or just about anything depending on the particulars. What's the prototype supposed to prove/demonstrate? ...roboticus	[reply]