"ccc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I *am* a Perl fan, but after having looked at scripts someone else
>wrote (who is no longer with us) with a view toward updating them, I
>have concluded that a quick and dirty scripting language in someone
>else's idiom isn't a very good choice institutionally. Whic
ccc wrote:
> [snip] We are just your basic IT shop, system
> and network administration, hardware, help desk, the web site, and
> database administration. This is also the reason for the 'bad code' (
> which we have in abundance.) People who are not programmers and whose
> job it isn't to program w
ccc wrote:
>
> We don't have any 'programmers' on staff. At most, we have several
> people writing, maybe, two hours of code a week,
Fine !
> with maybe once a
> year building an application. We are just your basic IT shop, system
> and network administration, hardware, help desk, the web sit
> If no one knows the language
> you want to use, do you have time to account for the learning curve? Do you
> really want to try and replace all your programmers?
We don't have any 'programmers' on staff. At most, we have several
people writing, maybe, two hours of code a week, with maybe once a
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't
>> sound
>> like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that
>> somehow
>> you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of group
> It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't sound
> like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that somehow
> you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of groups. I don't
> expect you're going to have much luck.
No, we don't know an
Thanks for your post. I see from the tone of the replies that I may
have made a 'huge' mistake in using the ngs for research.
> From your post, it is not clear what these applications do. That may
> hugely influence any advice you can get.
Just about everything. For two cases in point: (1) We hav
Try matching technologies when building a decision matrix...
For example, if you need the PHP open source pile then MySQL works
well.
If you like SQL Server then ASP.NET or Mono with C# is attractive.
Eliminate contenders that have performance obstacles...
PERL does not multithread, PHP.com holds b
On 2 Jan 2006 10:24:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
> * Java/JSP -- We have already made the decision to go with Java, but
>we haven't started with it, and have not committed to Java.
> * Python -- Some of us have had limited experience with Python
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> January, 2006.
>
> * OO Perl/Perl6 -- Perl has worked real well for us, but we have
> doubts that it is the best technology, and we want to make a serious
> attempt to look at other things.
It might help if you elaborated on what thes
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> January, 2006.
>
> I do not intend to start any kind of flame war, but only to seek advice
> about different technologies concerning which I am mostly ignorant.
> [...]
> I have been tasked by me IT department with investigating differen
January, 2006.
I do not intend to start any kind of flame war, but only to seek advice
about different technologies concerning which I am mostly ignorant.
I am the database manager for a unit of a major state university. A
part of my job includes building database access and web enabled
applicati
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