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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: 25 Sep 2004 23:53:26 -0700
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"Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu> wrote in message news:<mailman.76.1095975168.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
> Kevin Cline wrote:
> 
> > The real question I have is why Perl and
> > similar high-level languages are not more popular.
> Perl has its own great competitor - Visual Basic (and to some degree Delphi
> and some others, which also provide nice buttons and other GUI components)

I have written a lot of Perl and some Visual Basic, and Visual Basic
is not much of a competitor to Perl.  Perl is fully reflexive and
quite extensible, although some of the extension mechanisms are a bit
arcane.  By comparison with Perl, Visual Basic is completely
inextensible.