Re: web programming

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:15:53PM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> 1) I'm getting better and better at perl - and it's a much more
> mature language than php.

I've used perl just as a sysadmin till now, but I'm learning DBI/mod_perl
at the moment.

I found that they are very powerfull tools; the DBI is quite easy but
mod_perl not, you have to read lots of docs and do some practise.
The fact that php is an embedded language may be things easy
at the beginning, but mod_perl give you a better control over
the Apache. (But in fact I know just some basics about PHP).

> So what's your favorite web programming language to use with
> postgres, and why? Are there speed/performance issues I should think

mod_perl is known to be very fast, in fact it do not need to parse
file to find the code, by the way when a script has been compiled
it is kept in memory. On the other hand it needs lot of memory.

> about? I'm also beginning to get into XML, so there is another set of
> things to think about.

There are CPAN modules to parse then as input, and, while XML is
all text pile is very easy to create and manipulate with perl.

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Ciao, Maurizio.