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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-01, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/13, 5:10 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>

There's a reason why I pointed out I use PHP only as part of paid employment
and when my employer states that PHP is what I need to use for a project. :-)

Given my background, I also suspect my PHP code is much more paranoid about
checking things than I suspect quite a few other PHP users would be,
especially given I already knew about the issues around PHP before using it.

> 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.
>

I'm still pretty much in the 2.x world myself. It will be interesting to
see how this is resolved.

Simon.

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