From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: mark@mark.mielke.cc
Cc: Richard Troy <rtroy@ScienceTools.com>
Cc: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: OT: TCL vs Perl Re: commit so slow program looks frozen
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:32:02 -0700
Message-ID: <4540FF22.409@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061026180706.GA14287@mark.mielke.cc>
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<20061026180706.GA14287@mark.mielke.cc>
> Perl has a wealth of modules on CPAN to do almost anything you need to.
> TCL has the beginning of one (not as rich), but comes built-in with things
> like event loops, and graphicals (Tk).
>
> I could go on and on - but I won't, because this is the PostgreSQL
> mailing list. People either get Perl, or TCL, or they don't. More
> people 'get' Perl, because it was marketted better, it's syntax is
> deceivingly comparable to other well known languages, and for the
> longest time, it was much faster than TCL to write (especially when
> using regular expressions) and faster to run.
>
> Did TCL get treated unfairly as a result? It's a language. Who cares! :-)
You forgot the god of scripting languages, Python... (Yes perl is much
better at system level scripting than Python).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Cheers,
> mark
>
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