Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance !
Lincong
--- On Mon, 6/15/09, David G. Mackay <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David G. Mackay <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: which programming language for server-side admin tasks
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 3:16 PM
>
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that
> are very unhappy with
> > > the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have
> on them.
> >
> > Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that
> python does not
> > consider backwards compatibility to be
> important. This shouldn't have
> > come as a surprise. By comparison, perl has been
> around longer and
>
> Judging by some of the comments on the fedora-devel list,
> it did anyway.
>
> > through more changes and yet about the only thing you
> might have to
> > check on a program written for perl 1.x to run under
> 5.x would be
> > whether you have @ in double-quoted strings that you
> wanted to remain
> > literal.
>
> I used to do a lot of coding in perl, but I found that I
> liked python
> better. I still like python for quick and dirty
> one-offs, but I'm not
> going to use it for large and persistent projects.
>
> > One other consideration is that perl probably has the
> current advantage
> > in terms of available code library modules.
> Pretty much anything you
> > can imagine doing has already been done and
> contributed to CPAN so often
> > the code you have to write yourself is trivial with
> the modules doing
> > the bulk of the work. Java may be catching up in
> this regard but I
> > don't think there is a central place to find available
> code.
>
> Google? ;)
>
> I guess the real question is how well java is going to
> prosper under
> Oracle's ownership. Then again, with openjdk, it
> might not matter too
> much.
>
> Dave
>
>
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