Ken G. Brown wrote:
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Would anyone care to comment on a comparison between Perl and Squeak? For what purposes would the use of each be most suitable?
The two are pretty different. Perl is a system-side scripting language used (almost?) exclusively for Web-centric scripting work. Its real strength is in regular expression parsing but it is a highly flexible language. It is not, however, object-oriented, it runs on the server (though there are versions that are implemented on the browser, not yet in very widespread use), and is not well suited to things like creating UIs, building full-blown applications, or other things for which Smalltalk/Squeak are ideally suited.
Comparing the two really is a case of apples vs. oranges.