[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

Adam Pisoni apisoni at shopzilla.com
Mon Aug 14 10:10:22 PDT 2006


On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:

> I'm concerned that other forces may counteract
> this adjustment including the fact that schools in the States push  
> Java,
> python is becoming more popular as a general purpose scripting  
> language, and
> other languages and frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails) are taking up  
> the "I
> want to build a simple web site" position.
>

Ruby is a great language, but it is also just the flavor of the  
month.  I don't think Perl is going anywhere anytime soon.   Since  
Rails is basically the de-facto web app framework for Ruby, it gets a  
lot of press.   Perl has any number of similar and perhaps better  
frameworks, but they are not as well known.  Most people writing perl  
web apps still think in terms of scripts.   If anything, we just need  
more publicity of the ease of creating Perl web apps.

Thanks,
adam



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