On Friday, May 21, 2004 9:59 AM, Jeff Hobbs wrote: > > > > Mind you, I'm all in favor of Tcl, and I've been using it for > > > > almost 10 years now... but the facts are that there are A LOT > > > > of Java programmers out there compared to the number of Tcl > > > > programmers, and that is a decision in picking what web > > > > server to use from my experience. > > > > > > There have to be a lot of Java programmers out there, because > > > it takes a few dozen of them to be as productive as one Tcl > > > programmer. ;) > > > > I contend that this is because 90% of the Java programmers come fresh > > out of college, with 2 CS classes under their belts (taught in Java) and > > go "Rawr! I r programmer!!"... Whereas most of the Tcl programmers have > > a background of being good programmers that needed to find a good > > language for something particular, saw Tcl, and went "Wow, > > this is great" :) > > I would agree that has something to do with it. It is easy to > see that Tcl does have a lower learning curve regardless, which > is one of the reasons it was chosen for AOLServer in the first > place. > > In any case though, I do support AOLServer integration with > other languages, notably Java, PHP, Perl and Python. There is > more to be gained in plurality than lost in focus.
Exactly. Tcl and java are very different languages, each good for different purposes. There are some things that one might do in a web application for which java is simply a much better implementation language. I want to do some of those things. AOLserver has advantages over other platforms such as Apache/Tomcat that have little to do with the extension language. I'm not a java programmer but probably will become one because, in the spirit of using a hammer rather than a screwdriver to drive nails, it's the right tool for this job. Likewise I have no interest in "selling" AOLserver but would like to use it -- continue to use it, actually -- because that would be the right choice of server. In this instance, if a compromise has to be made it'll probably be to use a different server rather than a different language, but I'd really rather not have to make that compromise. -les [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
