[.You will find this information fascinating and helpful for advocating and
reasoning of using perl and not other languages for a search/string
processing tasks (well, *we* know that, but this is an academic paper --
the exact kind, IT managers like).
Sorry for yet another offtopic, I've no idea when the advocacy list will
return back to life]
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:04:39 -0800
From: Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>
To: fwp@technofile.org
Subject: [FWP] Re: Results of Language Comparison Study
At 12:42 PM 2/29/00 -0500, John Porter wrote (to advocacy@perl.org):
>Lutz Prechelt has released a report on the results of his programming
>language comparison study. It is very interesting indeed!
>
>The document is available as a gzipped PostScript document (81k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.ps.gz
>
>and as PDF (144k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.pdf
This paragraph was worth the price of admission alone:
>In the script group, my personal impression is that the Perl subjects
>tended to be more capable than the others.
>The reasons may be that the Perl language appears to irradiate a strange
>attraction to highly capable programming
>fans and that the "fun with Perl" mailing list on which I posted the call
>for programs appears to reach a
>particularly high fraction of such persons.
And then there was the table which showed the "language level" of Perl was
more than twice that of the next highest (personally, I disagree that the
number for Tcl was a typo :-)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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reasoning of using perl and not other languages for a search/string
processing tasks (well, *we* know that, but this is an academic paper --
the exact kind, IT managers like).
Sorry for yet another offtopic, I've no idea when the advocacy list will
return back to life]
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:04:39 -0800
From: Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>
To: fwp@technofile.org
Subject: [FWP] Re: Results of Language Comparison Study
At 12:42 PM 2/29/00 -0500, John Porter wrote (to advocacy@perl.org):
>Lutz Prechelt has released a report on the results of his programming
>language comparison study. It is very interesting indeed!
>
>The document is available as a gzipped PostScript document (81k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.ps.gz
>
>and as PDF (144k) --
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.pdf
This paragraph was worth the price of admission alone:
>In the script group, my personal impression is that the Perl subjects
>tended to be more capable than the others.
>The reasons may be that the Perl language appears to irradiate a strange
>attraction to highly capable programming
>fans and that the "fun with Perl" mailing list on which I posted the call
>for programs appears to reach a
>particularly high fraction of such persons.
And then there was the table which showed the "language level" of Perl was
more than twice that of the next highest (personally, I disagree that the
number for Tcl was a typo :-)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist...
==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_
==== unsubscribe
______________________________________________________________________
Stas Bekman | JAmpH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker
http://stason.org/ | mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide/
mailto:stas@stason.org | http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC/
http://singlesheaven.com| http://perlmonth.com http://sourcegarden.org
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