[NTLUG:Discuss] Wanting to speak the language

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:02:52PM -0600, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >- For text/database programming, or things that manipulate lots of
> >  symbols, use Perl.
> >- For server-side web programming, use PHP.
> >- For doing things on browsers, use Java.
> >- For device drivers and standalone applications, tend towards C/C++.
> >
> And when people continue spouting old information as if it was current, 
> I really have to speak up.  Java does both Applications (has been quite 
> reasonable ever since 1.4 came out almost two years ago), and Server 
> side (since about 2001).  

Sorry, I wasn't intending to imply at all that Java wasn't
unsuited for applications -- indeed all of the languages listed
can be used for any of the purposes being discussed.  I was simply
giving rules-of-thumb about where things seem to fall, and my
experience in performing each of the above tasks.

Pm