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From: mufti@pls.com (Saad Mufti)
Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
Message-ID: <1995Sep25.174447.23298@pls.com>
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In article <MSFRIEDM.95Sep20173811@bingster.us.oracle.com>,
Mark S. Friedman <msfriedm@us.oracle.com> wrote:
>In article <nagleDF6IEA.8EJ@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>
>*  >carr@fast.cs.utah.edu (Harold Carr) wrote:
>
>*  >>What do programmers who implement and use real programming
>*  >>languages like, Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Icon, etc; use
>*  >>instead of TCL or PERL?
>*  
>*        Either Visual Basic or Java is a decent choice for little programs.
>
>Tcl is an embeddable scripting language. Perl is mainly a system
>administration and shell script language. Both are primarily Unix
>based. In what sense are Visual Basic or Java appropriate for the
>typical uses of Tcl or Perl? 
>
>To start with, Visual Basic runs only on PC's and Java isn't even in
>Beta yet!
>

A good very high level object oriented language that offers a good compromise
b/w scripting and general purpose development and is not too Unix specific is
Python. Visit http://www.python.org/ for more info. To my knowledge, Python has
stable ports on all sorts of Unix platforms as well as Windows, Windows/NT and
Macs.

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Saad Mufti
Personal Library Software
