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Date:      Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:57:14 -0700
From:      Tom Vilot <tom@vilot.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
Message-ID:  <41DC9AFA.8090003@vilot.com>
In-Reply-To: <667459872.20050106025318@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEPAEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <41DC44BB.8020608@vilot.com> <667459872.20050106025318@wanadoo.fr>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>I tend to agree.  Are people still using Java?  
>

Yeah, I think so ..... strange as it seems to me.

>Perl seems to do just about everything.
>

Agreed. OTOH, Perl is quite idiomatic, and that can be a real hurdle. 
Plus, there are so *many* ways to do things in Perl, that it can be easy 
to write what another programmer would consider opaque, impenetrable code.

Python seems to be a nice intermediary.



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