FortKnox's Journal: Look! Perl is better than C++ and Java!

The new poll makes me wonder. The "best scripting language" contains both C/C++ and Java.

Granted, some old-school C coders may script in C, but who SCRIPTS in C++ or Java? I think they are just up there to have a poll that shows perl is better.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think perl is a wonderful scripting language. I just don't htink its the answer to large applications or large web apps.

I think the title of the poll should change to "what's the best language", or C++ and Java should be dropped from the selections for ksh, sh, or even .BAT

C and scripting

[norwoodites]

I script in C using csh.

I agree

[Pinball Wizard]

C++ and Java are not scripting languages. They don't belong in the poll. I wouldn't even count javascript as a scripting language because its confined to browser programming for the most part(except in MS-land, where it can be used anywhere vbscript can, go figure)

VBScript and Ruby are a couple of really good scripting languages that were left off so they could put C++ and Java in there.

But yeah, I agree, as far as scripting languages go Perl rocks. I wish it were easier to combine genuinely easy scripting languages with powerful Object Oriented beasts like Java. Admit it, even in a big Java program, there are times that you wish that GUI button would fire off a Perl script rather than access some method in a big OO hierarchy.

Re:I agree

[norwoodites]

JavaScript, you can use as a scripting language as a replacement for AppleScript on the Mac.

Re:I agree

[jeffy124]

they added a regexp package in jdk1.4, it might be useful for getting the pattern matching aspects of perl into java. I've never used it, so I dont know how good it is.

Re:I agree

[FortKnox]

Regexp in Java aren't as good as perl regexp, but, on the other side, Java's String object has great methods that do wonders to string manipulation.