[Gllug] Website developement

[Alex Hudson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
> ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!
> PERL!!! NO!
> 
> Why is it everyone thinks perl is so great?

Where do we begin?

> its a write only language! Horibble! Give me C or Java or LISP any
> day!

Perl is higher level than both C and Java, probably also Lisp (I only have
experience of Scheme). Perl comes with masses of fantastic libraries. perl
-T makes it easy to write secure CGI. CPAN allows you to get on with the
business of programming the application, not the support libraries. Perl
has auto-vivification. There is more than one way to do things. It can be
object oriented, or not. It integrates with everything. And, Perl 6 will
rock. Don't cuss it until you've realised you're wrong :P

BTW - back on topic - web design comes down to two schools of thought. The
first is separate presentation from content, which is where templates (et
al) come in. Hold the data in a database, generate the pages live from a
template. This works great for big sites (100+ pages), but kind of sucks
for small sites (it's boring as hell). The other one is to not separate
presentation from content - this is called design, is bloody hard work,
but gives the best results. Most small sites are somewhere in between.

Cheers,

Alex.


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug