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Subject:   Not since 95 or 96
Date:   2005-03-04 01:05:50
From:   bensyverson
OO makes for long and ugly-looking code (to this programmer anyway). It doesn't help that Java was spectacularly and audaciously useless on the Mac for many years... Perl is my language of choice, for its concise nature, aesthetic appeal, poetic leanings and the wonderfulness of mod_perl. Although standard C is fascinating to me aesthetically, as it can look radically different in the hands of different coders...
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  • Not since 95 or 96
    2005-03-04 04:54:12  MSchienle [View]

    I'm pretty much "all Perl, all the time" these days. I'm old enough that FORTRAN was the language of choice when I was going through college, and have developed a fair number of apps in FORTRAN, Ada, C/C++, IDL and a few others. Perl's integration with the web via CGI and LWP, and databases via DBI keeps me very productive.
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