Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-03 Thread getadog
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:24:24PM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote: To list a few bad points of Zope: It's huge, it requires a lot of machine resources, and having getting Zope to play nice with Apache is non-trivial (it likes to ignore the options its own documentation says to use to turn off

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: at least I didn't use fowl language {:-). chicken :) -- jamesw Jaq what's wrong with the default? :) jdub It is poopie. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-02 Thread Ben Leslie
On Wed, 02 May 2001, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, getadog said: I you're going the python route, then go the full monty: www.zope.org. To list a few good points of zope, revision control, it will allow multiple people to work on the site at once. It will allow

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-02 Thread Ben Leslie
On Wed, 02 May 2001, Anand Kumria wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote: Let the flame war begin : I want comment on others I'll just give you my ideas about my favourite high level/scripting language. Python (www.python.org) is a nice object

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
Mason is a component of mod_perl mod_perl rocks my world ;) Dean David wrote: Noted with interest about the use of mason as a potential language for the development of the SLUG site... and I need to learn a language for web development and database (postgres? mysql?) similar to the SLUG

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Terry Collins Stick with Cobol. It is still around and in use. All the others have been fads that have come and gone. Only you, Terry. ;) If anyone is really interested in Cobol, and if even if you aren't, be shocked and amazed that some poor bastard had to implement CobolScript.

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread getadog
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:28:12PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Ben Leslie wrote: Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find quite good for most of my needs. I'll outline pros and cons below. Pros: Database interfaces for postgresql (and probably

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: Only you, Terry. ;) bow {:-) into the Windows glove just like VBScript, ECMAScript, PerlScript and at least I didn't use fowl language {:-). Nor did I point out the obvious *nix language LISP! Which leads to emacs. I thought that was just a tad too inflammatory. As I

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote: Let the flame war begin : I want comment on others I'll just give you my ideas about my favourite high level/scripting language. Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find quite good for most of

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-05-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, getadog said: I you're going the python route, then go the full monty: www.zope.org. To list a few good points of zope, revision control, it will allow multiple people to work on the site at once. It will allow you to undo mistakes. cvs allows multiple people to

[SLUG] language jihad

2001-04-30 Thread David
Noted with interest about the use of mason as a potential language for the development of the SLUG site... and I need to learn a language for web development and database (postgres? mysql?) similar to the SLUG requirements. PERL, PHP, mason? what the hell is mason? There have also been other

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-04-30 Thread Ben Leslie
On Tue, 01 May 2001, David wrote: Noted with interest about the use of mason as a potential language for the development of the SLUG site... and I need to learn a language for web development and database (postgres? mysql?) similar to the SLUG requirements. PERL, PHP, mason? what the

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-04-30 Thread Terry Collins
David wrote: ...snip I don't know any current language (I was a cobol programmer in the 70's). I remember someone on list being incredibly disparaging of PHP. A language jihad might guide me (and others?) which direction to take, and avoid false prophets. Stick with Cobol. It is

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-04-30 Thread Crossfire
David was once rumoured to have said: Noted with interest about the use of mason as a potential language for the development of the SLUG site... and I need to learn a language for web development and database (postgres? mysql?) similar to the SLUG requirements. PERL, PHP, mason? what the

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Lake
Ben Leslie wrote: Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find quite good for most of my needs. I'll outline pros and cons below. Pros: Database interfaces for postgresql (and probably mysql) * Yes it has MySQL module for connectivity. * a module PyXML