On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Andre Landwehr wrote:
> I made some pages with Embperl, but I don't know Mason. Yesterday
> a friend told me of Mason, but he does not know Embperl very
> well. Now I wonder about the pros and cons of each, not only in
> respect to performance but also general usability, bugs etc.
> What do more experienced web programmers than I am think about
> Embperl or Mason?
Well, I haven't used Embperl but I've read the docs a bit and I have some
idea of how it works.
One big difference that I would point out is that despite its name
HTML::Mason, is _much_ less HTML centric than Embperl. It is a bit
mod_perl centric but there is literally nothing HTML specific about it at
all. We've been talking recently about how to expand mason so that it can
be used in any sort of context where you have a request (from STDIN,
email, whatever) for content that you want filled by components. From
what I can tell, this is unlikely to be possible (or desirable?) with
Embperl.
This means that learning Mason for your website could let you leverage
this knowledge into creating a generic server, a command line filtering
command set, or whatever.
-dave
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