Well, I'm not really sure that any amount of elegance would cause a perl program to run faster than a similarly elegant C++ one... I don't want to get into a language war, but since I'm right there will be no need for one. ;) -----Original Message----- From: Ted Rolle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [JDEV] RE: Implementing Jabber Server in other Languages (Was RE: [JDEV] Cus tomizing Jabber server) > It seems like the prototyping point here is the strongest. From a perf > perspective, C/C++ all the way seems pretty important for carriers and large > ISPs (like us if I may be so bold), but not for people tooling around with > new features... If we all agree with this, the nice thing might be that a > second/alternate language version would have an EXPLICIT goal of being > readable and modifiable and NOT being efficient or cheaply/quickly scalable. These goals are not mutually exclusive. The meeting/common point is called "elegance". _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
