[BNE-PM] What do you use Perl for?

[Don.Simonetta at mincom.com]

Good question Derek.
The only "good" reason I can think of is the level of commercial support 
for the technologies. I suppose its a bit like saying "why are you buying 
a $200k Ferrari when you can build a faster car from a kit for less than 
$50k". Apart from suppotability all other arguments would probably be 
non-technical.



Tony Obermeit wrote:
> Previously 
> I used perl for all three of these areas, now I use java for application 

> development, ant for build scripts and perl for ad-hoc scripts.
> 

Okay, my question is: what technical reason is there for using Java for 
web applicatoins instead of Perl?

I haven't ever done any web applications, so I really don't know, but my 
experience with Java is that it's large, slow, not very portable really, 
and the database integration support just doesn't measure up to Perl's 
DBI module, and it takes a *lot* more code to get anywhere.

That was in 1999, maybe things have changed (but I still have to run 
Java GUIs that are too slow and suck up 46M!!). Is there any real 
advantage over, say Apache + mod_perl + Perl?

Regards,
Derek.





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