Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/02/05:23:40
>> Strong typing ...
>> The only interpreted language that I see very interresting
>> (but not an alernative to Perl) is Python,
Is python strongly typed, I dunno ??
>> (Pure) OOP + interpreted language = Slow slow slow ...
Is python slow, I have the O'Reilly book on reg-exps and python had good
performance there.
On the python subject, I have a strong desire to switch to emacs, but
its use of lisp seems a bit off the beaten path. I would rather see the
native language as perl but if I had to learn a new language it I would
rather it be python.
BTW, is there an xemacs out there for the Xserver in binary form ??
Xwindows is essiential for the remote operations admin.
>Personally, I think Perl will benefit from strong typing sometimes.
I agree, but only as a feature and not an inherant behavior.
Perl is a pretty perfect food group by all know nutritional standards
and is, BTW, my bread and butter.
Typing is important to please the corporate higher ups...
They want to see a executable fail outright rather than having it try to
add strings, for instance.
>So why not have some kinda pragma indicating a particular variable as
of type integer or float?
That would be a handy layered addon as a perlmodule but changing the
basic perl structure to allow a performace gain is a lot of unnecessary
work, if you want C performance, then load it it as XS in your module
package.
The perl-porters are far to busy supporting a tryly flexible language to
rip the guts out it just now.
As far as prototyping goes... thats what shell is for, perl code is the
product in its final form.
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