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There is a place for everything.
Scripting languages are perfect when you need a quick side solution to your overall project. Like triggers and functions in DBs and simple login form plugin or dynamic content in the web page. As long as another programmer can come in look at the function call and replace it quickly and easily with his own implementation of choice, a scripting language is perfect.

But I look down on implementing whole programs in scripts. According to CS101, the biggest cost in any program is maintaining it. Making the software is small in comparison. Probably designing it properly is the second most difficult thing.

Scripting languages, although simple and easy, usually bring along a lot of personal traits to the software. If you follow strict software design principles for large projects, the scripts become harder to code than conventional languages. It is difficult for one programmer to look at another's code and quickly understand it unless the code in question is simple and concise.

So for medium to large projects that will have somewhat of a lifetime, scripts make it hard to maintain. Just look at perl code happy

I don't consider the speed factor a problem. Hardware and interperters have gotten/getting to a point where that isn't a big issue. I just think it is a proper design/simplicity thing.
Posted by: doe_z   Posted on: 05/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Too bad sourceforge  Roger Ramjet | 05/13/05
The wrong message.  ceegh | 05/13/05
Do it "MY" way, or go without.  enduser_z | 05/13/05
Still short sighted.  ceegh | 05/17/05
This assumes that all Web projects start out large  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
A little Elitist, aren't we?  el1jones | 05/14/05
Brother, you got that one right!!!  coffeenite | 05/16/05
Wow, maybe I can be an accountant too?  agramont@... | 05/13/05
I sympathize with you.  Yen_z | 05/13/05
Maybe, if you want  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
WROX Press -- Dude, I'm Bummed  coffeenite | 05/16/05
Ummmm...what?  vdraken | 05/13/05
Yes  FirstNLastN | 05/13/05
What a pile of...  FirstNLastN | 05/13/05
wrong, dumb, stupid and MISLEADING  quietLee | 05/13/05
Scripted vs Object-Oriented  wildranger | 05/13/05
It is AOP not OOP wink (nt)  doe_z | 05/13/05
There is a place for everything.  doe_z | 05/13/05
Bingo!  ceegh | 05/17/05
Flexability of languages like PHP, in particular  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
so you think businesses WANT to hire script kiddies to write apps. to run  wessonjoe | 05/17/05
Failures of ASP.NET  wildranger | 05/14/05
I do not witness any of what you are talking about, I'm afraid  Dan_Walker | 05/15/05
does anyone still use ASP.net?  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
PHP hobbyist????  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Some of these posts here ...  coffeenite | 05/16/05
I disagree completely  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Uh ... I'm not so sure about that ...  coffeenite | 05/16/05
output caching, etc  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Sorry, I disagree...  wildranger | 05/16/05
good points but  hipparchus2000 | 05/17/05
....so have millions of businesses world-wide  wildranger | 05/17/05
in other words you have a financial interest in .net  hipparchus2000 | 05/17/05
New Scripting Language for .NET/Mono  ab@... | 05/17/05
I commend the author  ghekko | 06/27/06

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