Re: Perl / mod_perl / PostgreSQL was: Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:06:34PM +0100, Alvar Freude wrote:

> - -- Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
>
> > Someone pointed out on this list some time ago that you can work around
> > the performance issue of starting a Perl interpreter and the compiling
> > phase by using PersistentPerl.
>
> you should use mod_perl, but it is *much* more then "CGI scripting on
> steroids":

Well, my applications are not web based at all, so mod_perl is not an option
in this case.

Though I still don't see why should pick mod_perl over PersistentPerl, if I
were to build a web-app?  I have used HTML::Template for, well, HTML templates;
though it is not exactly pretty, it works as intended.  (Smarty templates
for PHP appear to be much better, but I don't like PHP.)

> Embperl (embedded Perl in HTML with automatic forms, tables, ..., see:
> http://www.ecos.de/embperl/en/) with PostgreSQL is a very good combination
> for small web applications. Easyer and much more powerfull then PHP.

Hm.  Depends on what you call small, I guess.  I swear I will never put
HTML in code (or vice versa) again.  Not in PHP nor Perl.

Maybe this will be over when I switch to Python.  Eventually ...

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Hoy es el primer d�a del resto de mi vida"