Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Perl Domination in CGI Programming? http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/20/1246241.shtml It seems to be a good candidate to be posted on perl.apache.org site, and to send people to, when the next "is perl/mod_perl good for CGI and why?" question hits the list. It was nice to see

Re: Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Stas Bekman wrote: [slashdot summary snipped] Well, if the trend continues we ought to learn Java some day :) Ha! Well they are going to have to make JServ operable at some point if they want to replace Perl. Seriously, could they make their configuration process more opaque? I went to the

Re: Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Victor Zamouline
* Most CGI apps do text processing, where perl excels at Well, if the trend continues we ought to learn Java some day :) Java is magnificent, but VERY BURDENSOME when it comes to doing any kind of text processing or designing tricky structures. There are plenty of packages and tools