On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:20:41 +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
I'd rather prefer going through some pain on my part than have thousands of users pay the performance price. Nor do I want to pay the performance price myself, so my PC doesn't have a JVM.
That's exactly the point!
If you want performance, then C/C++ or Assembly(!) is better. But, that takes a long time to code and debug. Whereas, doing things in a more higher-level abstracted language makes development and deployment easier. So, basically the choice depends on the requirements.
You might want to look at the different scripting languages available out there and decide which one to use. It's not very difficult to implement a solution like this one. Why, maybe you could try out the Korn Shell - it has support for regex, sockets and other goodies built-in!
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