Weblog entry #10 for ajt

I think I'm missing Perl. My most recent project at work is awaiting deployment and my next one is on hold until we know what we need. I'm in that limbo state not able to do anything new but still having a mountain of work to do.

My last project had a large Perl component in it, which was really fun to be involved in. The next project is just SAP ABAP work and documentation, so not very interesting at all. Once that is done it should be back on the SAP PI interface project which is interesting because it's new but annoying because it's all written in Java - so it's horribly slow and awkward.

I know why firms like SAP select Java as their language but even then Jave moves too fast for them and now ships a version of Java that Sun have discontinued. I don't hate Jave but it never works everywhere, every damn platform is different and it's so painfully slow and resource hungry. Our team all need upgraded PCs as running SAP PI and Eclipse crushes our PCs and after a few hours you have to reboot...