From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 03:10:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6BE16A402 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:10:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF6743D45 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k3R3Ag4F024770 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:10:44 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3R3AiVl069920; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:10:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k3R3AhKj069919; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:10:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:10:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20060427031043.GA69851@gothmog.pc> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.391, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.81, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting languages... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:10:59 -0000 On 2006-04-26 19:41, Gary Kline wrote: > > Hi People, > I am NOT trying to start any kind of flame debate, but would > like to know what real advantage perl has over the newer > so-called all-in-one language, ch. (Other than the obvious > fact that there are literally billions of lines of perl existant.) Don't you really mean ``C#'' by writing ``ch''? Perl seems ubiquitous these days. Every operating system I regularly have to use (Linux, BSD or Solaris, in my case) has a Perl implementation that works the same way 90% of the time. When it doesn't, there's almost certainly a CPAN module that does the trick. $ uname -v FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 20 06:26:59 EEST 2006 \ build@gothmog.pc:/home/build/obj/home/build/src/sys/GOTHMOG $ perl --version | grep '^This' This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-freebsd-64int $ uname -a SunOS XXXX 5.10 Generic_118844-28 i86pc i386 i86pc $ perl --version | grep '^This' This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i86pc-solaris-64int $ uname -a SunOS XXXX 5.10 Generic_118822-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 $ perl --version | grep '^This' This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int $ uname -a Linux XXXX 2.4.26 #1 SMP Thu May 6 23:04:59 EEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ perl --version | grep '^This' This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi $ uname -a Linux XXXX 2.6.10 #1 Thu Dec 30 03:01:16 EET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ perl --version | grep '^This' This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi The biggest advantage of Perl for me right now is that ``A Fairly Modern Version is Just There(TM)'', wherever I have to work :)