|And finally, for the $64000 question: Can you explain me WTF |difference |does it make for a report tool, that reads text files and spits HTML |(and that it is absolutely not performance critical), the |language that it is written in?
It's not important what language uses the given application. Runtime is what is important. For typical Windows system administrator, running Perl or Java application is pain in the ass. The runtimes are complicated to install and setup and tends to break any given security architecture existing. In the above situation, installing such runtime is a truly religious experience: you can't understand it, you must blindly faith in it. When installing any standard Windows application, I am able to interact with it. If there are any problems, I can try to solve them. In case of miscellaneous runtimes such as Java, Perl, Cygwin and so on, all you know about your system architecture (and as I am Microsoft MVP, it's not too little in my case) is worthless. You can install it and then it either runs (and you can simply pray for it to be reliable) or it does not run. In the second case you generally can't do anything, because it does not interact the proper way regarding to your operating system. Situation of .NET framework is different. It's runtime, which is written in style of being cooperative with Windows OS. It's supported. It's documented the obvious way. It's incorporated in operating system (in case of Windows 2003 and above) and so on. Not everybody is prepared to give their vital system as hostage of some totally strange runtime he knows nothing about. I have nothing against Perl or any other programming language. There are systems, where they are at home. Use them there. All attepmts to do something else are mostly *failing* in production environment. -- Michal Altair Valasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altair Communications - web hosting, web design, application development ___________________________________________________________________________ http://www.altaircom.net | PGP: 0xC4F3579D | Phone (support): +420602137341 When it's inevitable, relax and enjoy it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
