Ken G. Brown wrote:
> 
<<snip>>
 
> 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.
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