On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Dr Skip wrote:
> 10 yrs ago I would have bet on Perl, but while it's really cool and useful, it 
> is limited. A gui and open compiler might have changed that, and it's not the 
> easiest to get good at. 

Perl is pretty fast with most things, and doesn't really need a compiler.

What kept it from taking over is no standard 'runtime' enviroment for 
people to load so they can run perl applications.  If you want to write 
stuff for peopel in Perl on Windows, you have to make sure they install 
and configure their Perl instalation right and thats not always simple, 
especially when you start needing various packages installed too.

Anyways, C and C++ arr never bad languages to learn for an engineer.  Lots 
of embedded stuff uses them, thewre are great IDEs for them, and what you 
learn will make learning other languages easier.

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Ian Smith
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