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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by Poiesis on Monday June 09, 2014 @01:13AM (#7867149)
So, I actually have no love for Java, and am greatly enjoying the higher proportion of scripting irb been up to lately. But I had to comment on a couple things:

> Why only that library...? I've seen it all when a Perl developer is calling out a Java developer regarding TMTOWTDI. Nice library though.

>I would like to execute some shell commands Not sure comparing to a language with an explicit complicit compilation step is fair.

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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by Roboprog on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @10:08AM (#7872525)
FWIW, I do more Java than Perl at work, though a fair amount of both. I guess I have written both "in anger", depending on the situation.

I guess the thing that gets under my skin about Java is that it is the mandatory one true language at so many workplaces.

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