RE: [FWP] Perl Moral Support

[Morris Peter PR <Peter.Morris@astrazeneca.com>]

its all horses for courses, 

I am about to start parallelising my C based ray-tracer, and will be
splitting the task up into seperate programs...

1) Dispatcher (to dispatch scene info and raster sub blocks to the seperate
renderers running on an SMP box)
2) Renderers (receiving a scene description, and then patches of image to
work on
3) Frame buffer to collect colour "swatches" from renderers and stitch them
up (antialiasing on the way)

original work was all done in C, new three step process will be coded in 
step 1) PERL
2) C
3) Java

as they are (IMHO at the moment) the best languages on which to perform
these different duties...

really, each tool has its place, and people should know enough about each to
be able to choose between
them and be confortable working on them...
:-)

just my 0.01999999657c (damn intel! hehe)


Regards, Pete.


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