I'll have to watch my language here, as I might otherwise get ostracised on that other
list of mine.
Tim Watts wrote:
On 14/07/11 14:38, André Warnier wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:
...
"I think for this problem, I have to treat tomcat as a little, rather
inefficient, black box .."
They liked that quote then? ;->>>>
<OT Rant>
I'm sure it's a lovely development environment (there must be some
reason people use it) - all I know is it's a resource hungry bitch
that's never happy unless it has GB's RAM and at least 2, preferably 4
fast cores. And if you p*ss it off, it will eat your swap and burn all
your cores at 100%. Bane of my sysadmin life...
We should start a club.
Don't get me started on the readability of its log files!!
Or worse, the logging configuration.
That's across a wide range of applications including commercial stuff
like Confluence.
Bah - give me mod_perl (or even mod_wsgi+python) anyday...
+1
I've got a lot done with HTML::Mason+mod_perl and very efficiently (for
such a simple templating system) and I've considering Mojolicious for
fun. Learning django too right now too for the cool forms+DB stuff.
We have been re-developing stuff that is based on ****, using mod_perl and TT2
for now.
It works faster, uses umpteen MB less memory, and may soon deliver us from the management
of that ****-based stuff too.
Thankfully, our guys are making a switch to django away from **** and
it is so much nicer to manage.
Don't know it, but will have a look.
[OT, ADVOCACY]
I am partial to perl and CPAN, because there are just so many things I have been able to
do with them over the years at little expense to solve real-world problems.
And despite the fact that I also use a lot of OO modules in perl, I just cannot get in
sympathy with a language like *****, where it seems that you have to mobilise a couple of
dozen classes (and x MB of RAM) just to print a date or so.
Never mind the time spent trying to find their documentations.
As a matter of fact, when I am confronted with a new kind of problem, in an area where I
know a-priori nothing, my first stop is usually not Google nor Wikipedia but CPAN, just to
read the documentation of the modules related to that area. Whether you need to parse
text, to process some weird data format, to talk to Amazon, to make credit-card payments,
to dig out and generate system statistics, to understand how SOAP works, to drive an
MS-Office program through OLE (and know nothing of OLE to start with), create a TCP
server, convert images, read or create and send emails, or whatever, you always find an
answer there. Even if in the end it turns out that the answer is not something in perl,
there is so much knowledge stored in CPAN that it is a pity that it is only consulted by
perl-centric types.
[IDEA]
Maybe creating a website named WikiPerl, containing just the CPAN documentation with a
decent search engine (KinoSearch/Lucy ?), would help restore perl's popularity ?
Or do we just keep that for ourselves, as the best job-preservation scheme ever
designed ?
Ooops. I was just about to send this to the wrong list...
