Re: web development (seeking opinion)

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Mohammad Shuja wrote:

> popular internet programming language (standard),
> like which is the case with database (oracle). I got
> all mixed responses, you suggested Perl + DBI &
> Apache, and another told ASP & IIS and there is
> java widely supported by oracle. I tend to go

Opinions do vary on all these technologies. You have to consider performance, and ease of use (installation, development etc), and let's not forget that we have to consider religious & evangelical fervor. :-)

> I try to lean towards the direction where the market
> is heading. I want to learn somthing that is (or will be)
> WIDELY popular. I will be starting with java and after some

Sometimes leaning towards the market, or what's popular will lead you towards an inferior product (Windows in all it's wonderous incarnations). There's a tradeoff.

With Perl you can write cross-platform code, though there isn't the robust OOP features that Java has. I don't even know if one can make a blanket statement and say one is faster than the other in every case.

I like Perl because it has a grassroots following, and an INCREDIBLE number of modules and packages available to do almost anything (1485 is the current count...)

http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 13:35:56 CDT