Chris Winters posts a comparison between Perl and Java in regards to unpacking a Zip archive. The Perl library allows for very straightforward use while unfortunately the Java one does not.
While I'm not a Perl guru, I do see the same sorts of things with Python and Java. I find this especially when I want to parse strings or read things from a file. You'd think that some ease-of-use changes would have made it into the language by now.
Posted by Josh at August 28, 2003 01:15 PM | TrackBack