[Info-vax] Most popular application programming languages on VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-01-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/9/2019 7:54 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-01-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> The support/interest for PHP and  Perl seems more limited.
>> 
>> Probably because the languages are more limited, especially PHP
>> which I have not really seen used outside of website development.
>
> Perl can be used for many things. From ops automation to web. But
> it is not so much in fashion.
>
> PHP is almost entirely web (web pages or web services). But I don't
> know if that makes it "limited" in 2018.
>

I use "limited" in the sense of what you can use Perl/PHP for when
compared to Python.

Can Perl or PHP be directly integrated into an application in the
same way as Python can ?

https://docs.python.org/2/extending/embedding.html

If you can, how does the level of integration compare to Python ?

Can you write application specific objects to control your application
and then reference those objects from your Perl/PHP scripts while
directly running the Perl/PHP from within your application ?

Python has another thing going for it over Perl and that is it is
relatively easy to get started with and is much more easier to learn
than Perl. This is one of the reasons Python is being used in some
areas of teaching.

You were correct when you said Python was more popular and there
are multiple reasons for that.

Simon.

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