From: johnvv AT hotmail DOT com (John vanVlaanderen) Subject: Re: Strong Typing Was -- RE: New Language 2 Oct 1998 05:23:40 -0700 Message-ID: <19981001170445.18851.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: perl-win32-users AT lyris DOT activestate DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >> 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. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".