You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!
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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes "Developers spend a lot of time telling managers, "Let me use the tool that's appropriate for the job." (You can insert the "...everything looks like a nail" meme here, if you wish.) But rarely do we enumerate when a language is the right one for a particular job, or a very very wrong choice.
After all, every programming language has its strengths—and its weaknesses. James Turner, writing for CIO.com, identifies five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that... well, really, shouldn't you choose something else?
This is the first article in a series which examines what each language is good at, and for which tasks it's just plain dumb. Another article is coming RSN about JavaScript, and yet another for PHP... with more promised, should these first articles do well."
After all, every programming language has its strengths—and its weaknesses. James Turner, writing for CIO.com, identifies five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that... well, really, shouldn't you choose something else?
This is the first article in a series which examines what each language is good at, and for which tasks it's just plain dumb. Another article is coming RSN about JavaScript, and yet another for PHP... with more promised, should these first articles do well."
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