[Bristolbathpm] Which language to use for what? - Looking at things from a different angle...

[Lyle]

Paul Makepeace wrote:
> There's a lot to be said for standardising within an organisation.
> That said, realistically there's stuff that C++, Java, JavaScript, and
> C (to name some 'big' languages) do that Perl just can't do. Of
> course, if you can say your business will never need to write software
> that runs extremely fast, be bounded in memory use, link to a kernel,
> build UIs, run in a web browser, or do well, whatever Java does :-)
> then fair enough.
>   

That's exactly why I updated my message before sending to be scripting 
language rather than just language.

> But I don't see any other
> scripting language out there that comes close to handling a diverse
> range of tasks, as well as Perl does.


I accept there are things you just have to do in C, C++ and JavaScript. 
Or I even guess Java for things like phone games (though I've never 
really liked Java for some reason).


> (This is all in support of your basic premise there's real value is
> specialising, btw.)
>   

Yes. Real value in specialising in Perl!



Lyle