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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Stas Bekman <sb...@stason.org> on 2000/02/29 20:02:32 UTC
[OT/Perl] Results of Language Comparison Study (fwd)
[You will find this information fascinating and helpful for advocating and
reasoning of using perl and not other languages for a search/string
processing tasks (well, *we* know that, but this is an academic paper --
the exact kind, IT managers like).
Sorry for yet another offtopic, I've no idea when the advocacy list will
return back to life]
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:04:39 -0800
From: Peter Scott <Pe...@PSDT.com>
To: fwp@technofile.org
Subject: [FWP] Re: Results of Language Comparison Study
At 12:42 PM 2/29/00 -0500, John Porter wrote (to advocacy@perl.org):
>Lutz Prechelt has released a report on the results of his programming
>language comparison study. It is very interesting indeed!
>
>The document is available as a gzipped PostScript document (81k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.ps.gz
>
>and as PDF (144k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.pdf
This paragraph was worth the price of admission alone:
>In the script group, my personal impression is that the Perl subjects
>tended to be more capable than the others.
>The reasons may be that the Perl language appears to irradiate a strange
>attraction to highly capable programming
>fans and that the "fun with Perl" mailing list on which I posted the call
>for programs appears to reach a
>particularly high fraction of such persons.
And then there was the table which showed the "language level" of Perl was
more than twice that of the next highest (personally, I disagree that the
number for Tcl was a typo :-)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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Re: [OT/Perl] Results of Language Comparison Study (fwd)
Posted by Stas Bekman <sb...@stason.org>.
> Stas Bekman writes:
> > [You will find this information fascinating and helpful for advocating and
> > reasoning of using perl and not other languages for a search/string
> > processing tasks (well, *we* know that, but this is an academic paper --
> > the exact kind, IT managers like).
> >
> > Sorry for yet another offtopic, I've no idea when the advocacy list will
> > return back to life]
>
> Argh. This is how things escape into the wild. The author has not
> released the paper yet. It is stamped DRAFT all over each page. The
> author is waiting a week for feedback from program authors before he
> releases the paper for sure.
>
> Please do not distribute the URL or refer to it until the author
> releases the paper for real. This will avoid the embarrassing
> situation where you say "see this paper for reasons to use Perl" and
> the author has revised Perl down to bottom on his list of hot
> languages, so your boss revokes your Perl privileges. :-)
Good point, Nathan. Use this info carefully.
The information was spread already. So the interested parties can poll
this report's homepage to see when it finally gets released.
And hey, you all can contribute to this paper too and make sure Perl stays
on top, and using the draft as a final version :)
______________________________________________________________________
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http://stason.org/ | mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide/
mailto:stas@stason.org | http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC/
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Re: [OT/Perl] Results of Language Comparison Study (fwd)
Posted by Nathan Torkington <gn...@frii.com>.
Stas Bekman writes:
> [You will find this information fascinating and helpful for advocating and
> reasoning of using perl and not other languages for a search/string
> processing tasks (well, *we* know that, but this is an academic paper --
> the exact kind, IT managers like).
>
> Sorry for yet another offtopic, I've no idea when the advocacy list will
> return back to life]
Argh. This is how things escape into the wild. The author has not
released the paper yet. It is stamped DRAFT all over each page. The
author is waiting a week for feedback from program authors before he
releases the paper for sure.
Please do not distribute the URL or refer to it until the author
releases the paper for real. This will avoid the embarrassing
situation where you say "see this paper for reasons to use Perl" and
the author has revised Perl down to bottom on his list of hot
languages, so your boss revokes your Perl privileges. :-)
Thanks,
Nat