Re: Do I *have* to use 'OOP' to use modules?

"Merrilee Larson" <merrile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the encouraging post. Perl4 was "my first love", and it seems
to me
that Perl's "Golden Years" occured during Perl4's reign. Just my
impression,
but I could be wrong.

Well, I think you're wrong. :-) My start with Perl occurred when Perl 4 was
all there was. Perl 5 was on the horizon, but I predated it by a few years.
Perl's "Golden Years" most definitely were not those of Perl 4.

But if I'm correct, it sure says a lot about procedural
Perl. Thanks again. I'm off to look at Tcl/Tk and Scheme/Lisp. Later...

It seems to me that you don't know what it is that you need from a language.
I say that without trying to be an ass. Considering that your stated goal is
to develop websites, and you've rejected PHP, C, C++, Java...I'm starting to
wonder what's left. You'll certainly reject C#, I see no particular reason
why you'd like Python or Ruby or Tcl a great deal more, I can't imagine
you'll be enraptured with XSLT...

I don't even understand some of the objections - PHP too verbose? How
exactly? Considering what PHP does for you it's unclear to me how it could
be less verbose. Do you want method names to be like those of J?

I am fairly language neutral when it comes to website development, mainly
because I dislike doing websites. But I've done a fair bit of it - most
programmers have - and used ASP + a M$ language, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion,
XML+XSLT, Perl CGI, and who knows what else. And IMHO any of the above (with
the exception of XSLT) are high productivity approaches, not difficult to
understand, all fairly maintainable, and well supported. So again I wonder
what it is that you're looking for in a language to support your web
development efforts.

AHS


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