N Yiannakoulias wrote:

It was really nice of you to put this troll in here just for my benefit. One thing the newsgroup knows is that I'm a sucker for language trolls. And you even posted the entire previous post, with absolutely no trimming, and you replied *before* the quoted text instead of afterward, just so we would all know you're kidding. Thanks.

> If you're intention is to write big applications then C++ is the only serious option,

other than everything else mentioned and not even considered...

> regardless of Java's platform independence.

I'm not giving you this one either.

> Perl is a cute secure little language, which > I like to program in, but it isn't meant for large programming projects.

Why not? It does OOP better than C++ and it protects the user from a host of nasty bugs which are next to impossible to track down in large C++ projects. You're never going to have to track down a Perl bug due to your stray pointer which trampled all over your malloc arena.

> Java > may not survive on the internet given all the new methods of developing interactive > web-sites. And without the applications on the internet, IMHO, I can't see why anyone > would bother programming in Java.

It's not my favorite language, but this is way too negative. Java will mature, and get faster [I hope!]

> C/C++ is never going to go away.

I could say the same about COBOL and Fortran. Do you advocate programming large projects in them also?

> Heck, all three > languages are so similar (syntactically) anyway that if you learn one the others will be a > piece of cake.

That statement makes me worry that you don't really know that much about Perl. But this entire thread is so off-topic that no one in this newsgroup should be reading it anyway...

David -- David Cassell, OAO Corp. cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov Senior Computing Specialist mathematical statistician