Re: language war

pltcl, of course!

Chris Travers wrote:

>First-- my main programming languages at the moment are Perl, PHP, and
>Python. I don't do multithreaded programming, though when I need to, I will
>use sockets, pipes, fork(), SYSV IPC etc. Needless to say, I do very little
>Windows programming.
>
>First, every language allows you to do things any of several right ways, and
>any of many many wrong ways. I am not convinced that the choice of language
>will make a sloppy program magically become readable.
>
>Most of my web programming is done using PHP. For stateless architectures,
>I have yet to find a language that is as extensible, powerful, and easily
>modular as PHP. My favorite feature is the fact that I can include
>arbitrary files, using a line of code:
>include "$next_file.php";
>Then whichever file shares the name (minus the .php extension) with the
>$next_file variable will be included. This enables me to write engines that
>allow for event-driven programming in stateless web environments. I have
>not been able to find an elegent solution to this problem either in Perl or
>PHP. Note: this is only used for UI modules due to obvious security
>concerns, and the variables should be subject to some additional sanity
>checks.
>
>I find that Perl is the best program for UNIX system programming, as long as
>performance is less expensive than programmer time. Many of my applications
>for automated, scheduled file transfers, log reporting, etc. as well as
>installers for other UNIX programs are written in Perl.
>
>Finally, I usually use Python for GUI apps, either with TKinter or WXPython.
>I find its support for many graphical environments to be excellent, and I
>can easily and rapidly prototype any application with it.
>
>There are two points to bear in mind with this language war:
>1: Every language lets you program in any number of right ways, but also in
>many many wrong ways.
>2: Using any language effectively takes some period of acclimation-- what
>works in one language often doesn't in another.
>
>Trying to bring this closer to the topic of the list--
>what do PL/PHP and PL/Python allow you to do easier than with PL/Perl or
>PLPGSQL?
>What other PGSQL languages would people recommend I look into?
>
>Best WIshes,
>Chris Travers
>
>
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