I personally love perl. It's really easy to do a lot of things in perl
(though it obviously can't do everything well) and would like to see it
in JSP. Granted, it is *J*sp...
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Nic Wise wrote:
> > What do you guys think about the long-term importance of non-Java languages for
> > JSP?
>
> Indifferent, to be honest. The reason I use JSP is because of Java. If
> wanted Basic or JavaScript, I'd use ASP. Probably.
>
> It _is_ a good idea to support other languages - even if its never used,
> its a handy thing to have available, but I think in the long run, its
> not the point of JSP - JSP is designed as JAVA Server Pages, not as
> "Any-language Server Pages" (oops :) ).
>
> The main advantage of JSP, to me anyway, is that I can do almost
> everything I could in ASP (I have 1.5 years of ASP under my belt, and <
> 1.5 months of JSP), but have the end result compiled (atleast to
> bytecode), fast, and with the cool language 'extensions' (eg, exception
> handling etc) that VBScript and JScript just dont do - and are unlikely
> to do until at the earliest v5 (IIS5).
>
> Other than that, the way I program the pages etc is pretty much
> unchanged. Just I get to use JBuilder+CORBA, rather than VB6 and COM
> (YUCK! - I was at an MSP, so sue me!). Nice to have a development system
> that doesn't die on me every 10 mins or so.
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> Nic.
>
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