On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:41:00PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > I don't run those either. Sorry =) > Regardless of whether we agree on languages, you cannot impose this > on me. As I have said repeatedly, if you force me to run perl and > python, when I don't wish to, I will go elsewhere. I reserve the > right to choose feature-rich vs. lean and fast. you know, i used to be like you, but then i openned my eyes and my mind. i work at a place where the previous programmer coded extremely time critical s/w in perl. he did so to take advantage of cpan and the resulting decrease in time to market. the software as it stands now can handle (in real world usage) a little over one transaction per second with each transaction taking about 3 seconds from start to finish (most of that waiting for the terminal we're connected to). in testing it's handled ~50 per second. scripting langs have the same penalties for bad code as compiled langs. scripting langs have a major downside however - they're hard for closed source developers to use. obviously not very important here. for those of you unfamiliar with it, i highly suggest a visis to www.cpan.org. it would be nice to see code reuse like this in the gnome project. kevin -- kevin suberic net i... i have a dream. and that dream is: fork()'ed on 37058400 use DIY::Tiler; meatspace place: home my($t) = new DIY::Tiler; http://suberic.net/~kevin $t->tile(-room => "en-suite", -style => "stone");
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