On Fri, 19 May 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> personally, i like to have generic things written in c, things that won't
> change much or at all after they are first implemented (not including bug
> shaking). e.g. Apache::Request. both c and Perl are great languages and
> blend very well together. both have pros and cons, i try to use the
> right combo of both to balance these out. c is smaller. c is faster.
> Perl is much easier to code than c, so i like to save it for things that
> are difficult to code. generating html is not difficult. is it really
> worth the time to implement this in c? i'm not convinced yet either, but
> it is worth thinking about. we need to consider these things if we want
> to see the Apache/Perl combo improve as a development platform.
> think big picture.
I would say that the bigger picture is definitely not generating HTML with
functions - use templates or stylesheets.
just my 2p.
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