Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-15 Thread Joshua Chamas
said, I definitely don't want to enlarge the scope even more at this time. Therefore I think the best solution is to start a separate document that does various comparisons Embperl vs. Mason, VB/ChilySoft vs. Apache::ASP etc. Having a section on each comparison sounds like a great idea. When

Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Andre Landwehr
Hi, I made some pages with Embperl, but I don't know Mason. Yesterday a friend told me of Mason, but he does not know Embperl very well. Now I wonder about the pros and cons of each, not only in respect to performance but also general usability, bugs etc. What do more experienced web programmers

RE: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi, I made some pages with Embperl, but I don't know Mason. Yesterday a friend told me of Mason, but he does not know Embperl very well. Now I wonder about the pros and cons of each, not only in respect to performance but also general usability, bugs etc. What do more experienced web

Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Joshua Chamas
Andre Landwehr wrote: Hi, I made some pages with Embperl, but I don't know Mason. Yesterday a friend told me of Mason, but he does not know Embperl very well. Now I wonder about the pros and cons of each, not only in respect to performance but also general usability, bugs etc. What do

Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread dreamwvr
hi, my ignorance on Embperl is about to show;-)) tell me what would one be looking at to write apps for say the casios and Pilot 5s in linux? will embedded perl work? is it the right choice? this to map to web technologies of course:-)) Regards,

Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Jason Bodnar
One big difference that I would point out is that despite its name HTML::Mason, is _much_ less HTML centric than Embperl. It is a bit mod_perl centric but there is literally nothing HTML specific about it at all. We've been talking recently about how to expand mason so that it can be used

RE: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Autarch
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: all. We've been talking recently about how to expand mason so that it can be used in any sort of context where you have a request (from STDIN, email, whatever) for content that you want filled by components. While you are talking, Embperl can

RE: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Pascal Eeftinck
At 15:17 14-2-2000 -0600, Autarch wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: all. We've been talking recently about how to expand mason so that it can be used in any sort of context where you have a request (from STDIN, email, whatever) for content that you want filled by

RE: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Gerald Richter
Well, I haven't used Embperl but I've read the docs a bit and I have some idea of how it works. One big difference that I would point out is that despite its name HTML::Mason, is _much_ less HTML centric than Embperl. It is a bit mod_perl centric but there is literally nothing HTML

Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Jonathan Swartz
Nothing really to add here, except that since this seems to be a FAQ, perhaps Stas would be willing to add a section about it that we could just point to whenever this question comes up? A non-partisan page with a focus on similarities and links to each site would be ideal. At 12:39 AM 2/14/00

Re: Embperl vs. Mason

2000-02-14 Thread Stas Bekman
to enlarge the scope even more at this time. Therefore I think the best solution is to start a separate document that does various comparisons Embperl vs. Mason, VB/ChilySoft vs. Apache::ASP etc. Having a section on each comparison sounds like a great idea. When the reconstruction of the guide