[lug] Programming

[jd]

> 
> 
> Hi jd,
> 
> Since you're contemplating a jump from PERL to C++ or from PERL to VB,
> why not move from PERL to Java?  Java is yet another language with
> C-like syntax and with Java you'd get:
> 
>   1) a free (as in beer) SDK and runtime
> 
>   2) easier (than C/C++) memory management
> 
>   3) an *immense* range of free (again, as in beer) and 
>      remarkably well-documented libraries for various 
>      problem domains, and
> 
>   4) a framework thats about as close to WORA (write once 
>      run anywhere) as anything currently gets.
> 
> Ed

Thank you for the idea Ed. I had not considered Java. I will have
to look into it. Are there nice GUI widgets like in perl/tk ? 

All this searching for a new Language is having me realize just
how Bad-Ass and easy Perl on a Unix platform is....what, you dont know
hot to parse that text file in perl?...well throw in some backticks
and use grep... I know this is frowned upon, but for a newbie with
a deadline, Perl/Linux is hard to beat!

Thanks all for the Help,
JD