[Sussex] Welcome to Newbies

[Geoff Teale]

Steve wrote:
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> All you should need to do is locate the binary in a path that is
> configured to be available to apache and it's sub-processes.  Then
> call in from the php file (which I haven't a clue about).  I've
> done this sort of thing with SSI.

This reminds me.. I had an argument last week (and I mean a proper, full-on
argument) with an ASP developer I used to work with.  He claimed it was
technically impossible to write a web-application in C.  Actually, what
really annoyed me was that he was using this as an arguement to stop his
boss moving all their web development to Linux/Apache - and the whole
foundation of his arguement was that you can only use C if you program on
UNIX. 

*sigh*

I gave up at that point and just explained to his boss that there are a
number of scripting languages that could be used trivially to replicate the
functionality of ASP - turns out his boss knew this and was faintly amused
by his developers rant.

The ASP developer walked away still arguing his point, even after I pointed
out to him that the network stack, and the webserver he was using (IIS
*yuck*) and the ISAPI filter for ASP were all written in C and C++.  He
still didn't understand or believe that C could be used to serve up a web
application in any way or form.  

...and they wonder why so many IT projects fail...


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'cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
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