Possible Ideas for Presentation
[email protected] ("James J. Gundy")
| Newsgroups | perl.trainers |
|---|---|
| Organization | Harris Corporation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I am presenting an hour information forum on Object Oriented Perl for a department in my company. As an introductory topic, I want to cover the advantages of using Perl, especially in comparison to other languages such as Java. I want to bring this up as a quick selling point for the language to encourage others in the company to explore Perl for themselves. I already have the basic advantages: Free Rabid Development No Memory Management Portable (Unix, Windows, Macintosh) Large Library Resources Excellent Regular Expression and String Handling I was wondering if anyone else had any other suggestions on the advantages of Perl. The target audience typically has a strong background in C or C++ and some Java experience. Most of the contracts are with the government and the projects are typically large scale information systems. I would like to see the language used more in projects, though it is unlikely to be every used as the primary language. I have been able to develop small secondary applications and tools in Perl and find it quite an advantage to either shell or C programming. -- James Gundy