[Wolves] Scripting language comparisons

[Matthew Revell]

> I reckon this is gonna be a big thread. :)

Yeah, I reckon you could be right :)

> JavaScript
>
> I mainly use Javascript as the glue in applications.

Don't suppose you could give me an example or two of glue in apps?

> Although some people use it (Javascript) fully for web
> development, that seems a bit hackish to me

Would you agree that the main problem with Javascript is that it runs on 
the client and so is unpredictable?

> XML
>
> This is something that I think you should consider.

Thanks. The article that I'm writing is part of a series and XML will 
definitely be covered within the series but as it's aimed largely at non- 
coders, I don't want to include XML at this stage: I've noticed that non- 
coders tend to confuse it with HTML and expect it to do things it doesn't. 
I'm probably gonna do a whole article on syndication etc, where I'll cover 
XML.

Thanks very much for all that.

Something that I've read about Perl is that it requires a new instance of 
Perl each time a script runs and therefore puts a heavy load on the server. 
Is that out of date or something that is still a concern? I assume that 
mod_perl kinda' fixes that. Does Python have the same problem?

Does anyone have any experience of JSP? It seems to get a lot of enterprise 
attention, am I right?

Also, I know that Coldfusion is fairly limited and is pricey, considering 
the free functionality of PHP, but would anyone here recommend it?

Cheers!


>
>
> --- Matthew Revell <matt@understated.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing an article on the comparative advantages
>> of the various scripting languages that can be used for websites.
>> It's aimed at online content professionals - website editors, 
>> information
>> architects, online writers etc. - to give them an idea of the languages
>> that are available.
>>
>> The languages/technologies I'm going to cover are:
>>
>> PHP
>> ASP
>> Perl
>> Python
>> JSP
>> Coldfusion.
>>
>> If anyone has any views on these with regard to one
>> another, I'd love to hear them! I'd give you a shout in the credits :)
>>
>> Matthew.
>>
>>
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