Asa Rossoff wrote:
From: "OOzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Asa Rossoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Which of the scripted languages run fastest, and which use ram most efficiently? The languages I know (just) a bit about are Perl, Python, and Tcl.
It really depends on personal preference. PHP is popular and rich. I don't know about Perl, Python and Tcl. I think these languages are for gurus. If
I
were you I will go for PHP.
I have some past programming experience, and am not afraid of a challenge for something worthwhile.
My impression is that the currently popular and modern backends for web work are PHP and Python. Is PHP meant to be used outside of web work?
You can write PHP scritps for admin stuff, but they are slow... the only reason PHP is fast is because it runs inside the web server,
(like mod_perl) PHP is not really good for admin stuff, it was never designed to be used like that. Perl was, in fact a good many of the install screens and tools you saw on install of Mandrake were Perl scripts, and so are some of the tools you use to maintain the box.
I use Perl for large scale web apps. (using a framework and templating system like CGI::Application and HTML::Template) and I also use a ton of small admin scripts to do backend stuff on the boxes.
Python is cool, but I don't know it all that well, Perl is far an away my favorite scripting language, and a look around search.cpan.org will show you why.
-- rgds
Frank
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