Re: [Nolug] Crappy Perl Code

From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah_at_everybody.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:08:39 -0500
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Brad N Bendily <brad@selu.edu> writes:

> The choice is being made by men who've been in the programming biz since
> the late 60's. But they've been teach for the past 20 years and in my
> opinion don't really know what the best language of the day is.

If they've been doing this since the 60's, they should know the best
choice: Lisp.

Lisp also has the advantage in the academic world because it is
respected by academics.

> Also this is a group of professors that barely know how to use
> Windows, let alone run their own Linux workstation.

Hey, I don't know my way around Windows!

In an academic setting, Lisp is probably the way to go.

Mark.
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