Re: Goodbye to compiling and linking. Every Database guy must know this!
Posted in 1998
What color do you want your database to be? ;) Ping Liu wrote: > Are there any degugging tools available for perl? > > gold_bag@yahoo.com wrote in article <352BCE60.53BF@yahoo.com>... > > I hope this helps the software professionals/managers like you.... > > > > Computer speeds are doubling every 4 months, hence it makes sense to > > program in scripting language instead of C++, where a lot of time is > > wasted in compiling and linking. In C++ every change or even a small > > change in code requires compile and re-link and you do that thousands > > of times during development. Also in C++ you will > > have memory leak problems which are very hard to debug and you get > > many core dumps etc. You will be wasting several hours/days in > > debugging memory problems in C++. Perl does not have these > > problems at all!!