[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/1/13, 5:10 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

> Actually, you may joke, but you have a point (at least for new development).
>
> I've known Perl for about a decade now, Python for 2-3 years less than
> that and PHP for about 5 years.
>
> I've come to regard Perl as a legacy scripting language these days.
> For any website stuff I do as part of employment I use PHP. Outside
> of employment (and at work when it's not website related) I use
> Python.

You're welcome to your tastes, but Perl has a better security record
than the other scripting languages and better Unicode support than most
programming languages, scripting or otherwise. It's actively developed
and isn't considered legacy by the many people who use it and depend on it.

I've never done much with PHP. I mostly hear about it when there is yet
another security hole or when some web site has blown up and spilled its
guts on the screen (such as openvms.org recently).

Python is a decent language but v3.0 is an incompatible fork that's been
largely rejected by the user community. So there's a big disconnect
between the people who use Python and the people who develop Python, and
it's not clear how that will play out.