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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/10/2019 2:01 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-01-10, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:19:57AM -0000, Simon Clubley via Info-vax wrote:
>>
>>> I use "limited" in the sense of what you can use Perl/PHP for when
>>> compared to Python.
>>
>> Since one can find modules on CPAN to do just about anything with Perl,
>> I would hesitate to call it limited.  But I prefer Perl over Python.
>> I've tried for years to develop a fondness for Python.  It hasn't
>> happened yet.
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> I haven't tried it with Perl, but from the documentation it looks like
>> it can be:
>>
>>      https://PerlDoc.Perl.org/perlembed.html
>>
>
> Thank you for the link. That's what I was looking for and didn't know
> if Perl (or PHP) had. I tried doing a search for all three (Python,
> Perl and PHP) before posting and only turned up the link for Python
> (which I already knew about).
>
> Given that Perl has this ability to directly integrate into applications
> as a scripting engine that indeed ends my opinion of it being "limited".
>
> The question then becomes why is Python used directly as the scripting
> engine in multiple applications I have encountered yet I have still to
> see a single Perl based scripting engine in an application ?
>
> I wonder if it's because Python comes across as being way easier for
> non-professional programmers to learn when compared to Perl.
>
> In terms of syntax difficulty, I would say Python was more like an
> OO based Basic while Perl was more like a C++ language and the Python
> style probably appeals more to the non-professional programmers using
> some of these applications.

Are you implying that a C++ type of language would appeal more to 
professional programmers?  Or that professional programmers would not 
like an OO based Basic language?

Just curious ....



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