[Gllug] Perl Question - Spam Filter for NMS Form Mail

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:39:31AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> It is not unique to python - any dynamic scripting language has this
> issue.  The lack of a compilation phase means the vast majority of your
> errors  will only appear at runtime. To address this problem you need to
> have seriously good testing capabilities.

Or, cough, use a language with the brevity of Perl/Python, but which
catches most of your errors at compile time.

> I really like the rapid development benefits oflanguages like   Perl or
> Python, but especially for GUI apps which are hard to do automated testing
> for, I wouldn't use either again for any non-trivial GUI app. Unfortuantely
> the alternatives are things like C, C++ or Java[1], each with their own
> limitations, but on balance I'd use any of them for GUI apps over Python
> or Perl

One thing we've found with C (belatedly) is that it's really easy to
cross-compile C-based GUI programs to Windows ...

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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