Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

[conover@panix.com (John Conover)]

Andy Smith writes:
> 
> It is almost as if one small set of metrics aren't enough to decide,
> for everyone, in every case, which language should be used!
> 
> Similarly, the idea posted in this thread to objectively quantify
> every feature a language can possibly have and then see which one
> has the most, so we can dub that language "the best": This ignores
> the fact that people have been doing research for 50+ years into
> creating the academically perfect programming language. Even if any
> group of people COULD agree objectively on those metrics, what
> succeeds in the marketplace of ideas (and indeed, the literal
> marketplace) would not be determined by those metrics alone.
>

Yep. Remember BNF/EBNF/ABNF context free grammars?

    John

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