From: Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Paul Kraus wrote: > > > This may be asking for biased opinions but here goes anyways... > > > > Is perl still a good choice for the web. > > Yes. Perl is a very good choice from all aspects.
Definitely. Wish the bosses would see that. > > Or should I look at the newer technologies such as vb.net on for > > that matter c#. > > > > I don't know too much about VB.Net C#, or ASP.Net so I cannot comment. > I know ASP.Net has a problem in which you need to explicitly > deallocate all the allocated resources, or else they'll leak. Yeah I've been told some scary things about the garbage collector in .Net On the other side, you may try Perl.NET ( http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/) and PerlASPX (http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlASPX/) > > I know perl and the idea of being able to use the same language in > > everything I do would be great but am I going to take a hit on > > performance. Can it be embedded into html? What is mason does that > > run on IIS. > > Mason can run on top of IIS by means of its CGI emulation. However, > there's also Perl ASP, which is a native IIS technology. They are > similar in spirit but Mason is more powerful. Last time I looked the performance of ASP+PerlScript wasn't great. It was much better to run perl via PerlIS.DLL (inprocess interpreter of Perl for IIS, part of the free ActivePerl) or even PerlEx. Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
