Re: Re: web programming - Mailing list pgsql-general
From | Thomas Good |
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Subject | Re: Re: web programming |
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Msg-id | Pine.LNX.4.05.10009270840090.27695-100000@admin.nrnet.org Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: web programming (Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>) |
List | pgsql-general |
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > One of our competitors sunk well over a million bucks into Sun/Oracle > > hardware, and thought they'd be "cutting-edge" by doing all of their > > back-end programming in Java. The end result is that our $20,000 cluster > > using Linux, Postgres, and Perl out-performs their setup by a very > > significant factor, and also has a greater potential for scalability. It's > > also a lot easier for us to find programmers than they can, and we turn out > > new products faster than they do. > > I really appreciate Perl CGI because it's an amazingly fast > development environment, much faster than any Java-based system > I've seen. Just edit the script and test; there's no compiling, > no copying or restarting of servers. mod_perl isn't quite > as good, since you have to restart Apache, but Apache restarts > instantly, so that's not a really serious concern. Java's > compilation time and the regular need to restart the Java > environment really slow down development work. (I've yet > to find a servlet system whose "automatic reload" feature > truly works as advertised.) > > I've also noticed that people who don't know Perl really > tend to underestimate how many really good Perl developers > there are. > > - Tim Boy am I glad you lads posted these replies - I'd hate to think I've wasted all this time learning an 'obsolete' language. ;-) For my money (about two cents US): The combination of Bunce (DBI), Mergl (DBD::Pg) and Lincoln Stein (CGI.pm) is a winner. Factor in mod_perl and I'm content to write my code in a 'legacy' language! (Why does that comment from Mark Twain ping from here to there in my sensorium? Hmm...I wonder if Larry Wall knew Mark Twain - back in the perl heyday...?) TFIC - and Cheers! Best of luck to the author of the original post, whatever language(s) you opt for... Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------- SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Personal: thomasgood@nordrhein-westfalen.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve --------------------------------------------------------------------
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