[ILUG-Social] Perl is a pool language

[Justin Mason]

Niall O Broin said:

> > and much of what you get at CPAN is available for those languages too.
> 
> Much, but nowhere near all.

Yep.  For example the Python URL client library, equiv to LWP, is
nowhere near up to scratch -- doesn't even have cookies.

> > Anyway -- I prefer to compile my code which rules out all of the above.
> 
> Doesn't rule out Perl :-)

yep, as I meant to say (but accidentally didn't ;), take
a look at http://www.indigostar.com/ ...  as far as I know it's
a compile-to-exe commercial app for Perl.

> P.S. Have any of you read Damian Conway's OO Perl book ?

No -- been meaning to get it tho',

--j.