Jim Self wrote:
> So, what tools would be best for putting a web interface on VistA
and other existing MUMPS
> based information systems and keeping them viable for the next
decade or two?
I am fond of perl, but I'm considering zope (GPL, runs on top of
python) for designing webapps. There is wxpython (GPL, bindings for
wxwidgets) for cross platform gui. There is also a nascent wxperl
(artistic licence, I think) around. I believe that these will all last
a long time - the nature of GPL itself helps ensure longetivity.
The GT.M database interface with python would need doing - maybe using
the (aborted?) perl version for some help in the logic. Then the
various modules could be guified piecemeal.
PJ
Apropos code maintainability/longetivity, from the python zen site:
EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH -- DAY
With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the
many thick vines that grow in the swamp until he reaches
the Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues
his exercises -- grepping, installing new packages, logging
in as root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell
scripts in Python.
YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code
maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more
than one way to do it... default variables. The dark side
of code maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick
to join you when code you write. If once you start down
the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny,
consume you it will.
LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?
YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?
YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six
months from now.
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