Despite all the talking on scripting languages I only see an advantage in BeanShell as a kind of hands on Java.
Once I often used Perl, but never again, since Java added regular expressions.
Other scripting languages just are not my thing. I tried Ruby and Python. They have nice ideas, but then why learn all these new idioms. I invest my time and interest in Java APIs :-)
It is better to know one thing very well than to know many variations to achieve the same thing.
I am no computer scientist, but use computer programming just as a tool for science and as a hobby |
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