Nothing really to add here, except that since this seems to be a FAQ,
perhaps Stas would be willing to add a section about it that we could
just point to whenever this question comes up? A non-partisan page with
a focus on similarities and links to each site would be ideal.
At 12:39 AM 2/14/00 -0800, Joshua Chamas wrote:
>Hi Andre,
>
>I am unbiased in that I do not use either, but know about
>stuff like this since I wrote my own equivalent to these
>web application environments, which will go unnamed ;)
>
>Embperl seems to be more script centric, and Mason seems
>more site centric, so mental approaches might differ
>between top down vs. bottom up.
>
>I am not meaning to disparage either environment in creating
>these very rough generalizations, but I believe that their
>respective talents lie in these directions, such that you
>might find yourself better enabled creating particular scripts
>with Embperl, but in creating a master site of sites, Mason
>might make things better.
>
>I can tell you that Embperl is much easier to get going, and
>has a very powerful set of objects to work with as well as a
>rich syntax. But the Mason site architecture is very advanced,
>and promises other features like a great debugger and
>application publisher.
>
>Also, Embperl is a bit faster on startup execution, but this
>should not matter on a large complex site. Both environments
>provide expert modularization & caching methodologies with
>Mason's component architecture and Embperl's new object and
>Execute() routine.
>
>-- Joshua
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