Interesting Quote

[Stuart Jansen]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:12 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> - some languages are better for specific purposes (e.g. erlang and
> concurrency)

And manipulation of binary data. Erlang was obviously not designed to
deal with strings.

> - some languages are better generalists than others, too
> 
> Perl is a good awk + sed replacement.  The problem is when people start
> using it as a generalist language because they don't know better.

Show me a good generalist language. I'd argue that for one of the most
common operations today, Perl is hands down the winner: string
manipulation.

-- 
Stuart Jansen                   e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org

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