From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:29:56 +0400 (MSD)
Date: 2004-09-26T19:29:56+04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.112.1096212542.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e749549b.0409252253.6d1a2870@posting.google.com>; from Kevin Cline at 25 Sep 2004 23:53:26 -0700
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.
Well, Visual Basic is not much a competitor to Perl for you - according to
your tasks/skills/tastes, but for too many software developers the situation
is opposite.
> 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.
You are certainly either joking or confusing a software development tool with
its verbal language core. Unlike Perl, Visual Basic is designed for dealing
with end-user behaviour, not just with data streams. And in this direction
it is much more extensible than Perl. You may note, that even an early Visual
Basic VBX stands for Visual Basic eXtension (although it must be programmed
in C/C++) and now ActiveX can be easily created with Visual Basic itself).
And there is a sea of various VBX/OCX/ActiveX for public use - commercial,
shareware and freeware.
Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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2004-09-22 0:21 Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Kevin Cline
2004-09-22 2:16 ` Pylinius
2004-09-22 8:50 ` Björn Persson
2004-09-22 13:38 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-09-22 14:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 15:16 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-23 8:22 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 10:52 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-09-23 10:54 ` stephane richard
2004-09-23 11:17 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-09-23 11:47 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-23 13:34 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-09-23 16:53 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-23 18:30 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 19:00 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-24 6:04 ` [OT]Screen ergonomics, was " Anders Wirzenius
2004-09-26 7:22 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 17:19 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-23 8:51 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 11:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-09-23 15:59 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-23 16:38 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-24 2:47 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-24 13:43 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-24 17:47 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-09-24 18:16 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-29 19:29 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-09-29 22:44 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-25 14:09 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-26 7:08 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-26 15:13 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-23 19:10 ` jayessay
2004-09-23 21:13 ` Adam Ruth
2004-09-27 2:12 ` Keith H Duggar
2004-09-27 14:21 ` Adam Ruth
2004-09-27 14:51 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-27 17:10 ` Adam Ruth
2004-09-27 20:16 ` Keith H Duggar
2004-09-27 21:15 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-28 4:46 ` Keith H Duggar
2004-09-27 20:34 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-27 21:15 ` Adam Ruth
2004-09-23 23:05 ` Brian May
2004-09-24 3:06 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-24 3:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-24 5:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-24 19:12 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-24 20:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-24 21:23 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-27 13:22 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-27 13:45 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-27 21:31 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-27 23:51 ` Brian May
2004-09-28 12:21 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-26 17:10 ` jayessay
2004-09-26 20:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-09-27 14:45 ` jayessay
2004-09-24 0:19 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-24 14:54 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 15:27 ` James Alan Farrell
2004-09-22 21:24 ` Simon Wright
2004-09-23 0:03 ` Brian May
2004-09-23 9:17 ` Kevin Cline
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2004-09-23 11:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-09-23 8:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-23 16:20 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-23 19:23 ` Simon Wright
2004-09-24 7:19 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-24 16:31 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-24 19:24 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-25 14:04 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-26 10:36 ` Robert Kawulak
2004-09-26 15:35 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-28 17:46 ` Robert Kawulak
2004-09-29 7:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-29 12:01 ` Xenos
2004-09-29 18:16 ` Robert Kawulak
2004-09-30 15:55 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-27 22:22 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-28 7:51 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-29 3:04 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-29 6:03 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-09-29 13:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-09-29 13:46 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-09-30 3:42 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-30 7:54 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-09-30 16:50 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-01 0:04 ` Kevin Cline
2004-10-01 12:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-02 7:35 ` K
2004-10-02 10:00 ` Brian May
2004-10-02 20:39 ` Kevin Cline
2004-10-03 2:17 ` Brian May
2004-10-02 13:40 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-02 23:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-03 12:47 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-30 19:01 ` Björn Persson
2004-09-30 23:54 ` Kevin Cline
2004-10-01 16:11 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-02 6:48 ` K
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2004-10-02 13:32 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-04 9:02 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-09-23 9:00 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 11:27 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-09-23 19:11 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-23 21:01 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-09-26 6:53 ` Kevin Cline
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