[plug] programming

[Paul Wilson]

----- Original Email -----
From: Ben New <ben at leftclick.com.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Date: 18-Sep-2003 14:21
Subject: Re: [plug] programming

> How so?
> 
> I've never seen a desktop application written in Perl...  I have seen it 
> used it in many places as a data filter, such as between a form and a db 
> or filesys, or between a db or fs and a report, or between a form and 
> sendmail (etc).  The other class I can think of is server application 
> and I haven't seen too many of them written in Perl either :-)

Volume accounting (distributed amongst 30+ servers). Rather than view Perl as
being appropriate for a limited class of application, think of it as a
language which has a short development cycle

Hooker

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