Re: Perl vs Java - your feedback, not flames

On Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 04:22, Stefan Neilson wrote:
> Read this articles on your site and how a couple of questions. This form
> was completed in 2004 and I am wondering how java has changed since then.=
 I
> have a part ownership in a software development company. Currently all of
> our software is built in perl. With the lack of perl resources there has
> been discussion about moving over to Java. I wanted to get some advice
> outside our office on the differences and benefits between java and perl
> and if it is worth the cost of moving to java.
>

Making a company wide programming language policy is not a wise policy. You =

choose the language based on the work to be done.

It is unlikely that you will use Java for day to day scripting work on the =

shell or in cron jobs. On the other hand, in making applications Java is at =

least as much useful as Perl. Both can do more or less similar things, both =

have extensive libraries to fall back upon for missing functionalities. You =

should get a lot of Perl folks in the job front. Which lack of resources ar=
e =

you talking about?

- Sandip

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