On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Now, now...that is unfair. I was referring to writing in pure Perl vs pure
> Java.
Admittedly it's not completely fair :-). I admitted that I would do (have
done) it in c. Given a choice between C and perl that is. But as you say in
the next paragraph, Perl is clearly a better choice than java on this.
(Although if you're only supporting JDK1.1x and later, the ability to pass java
objects over HTTP is really cool, and I used it extensively)
>
> Of course, C apis and pre-written daemon integration makes the glue
> language a moot point (and favors Perl actually).
>
> BTW, is select() is still broken in Win32 Perl? It was 6 months ago (I
> suspect because IO operates differently on win32) so you'd limit your
> platform too.
Honestly I don't know much about the Win32 platform. Until I had to use VMWare
to look at a prototype for a product I was helping out with I hadn't used
Windows in about 2 years. (BTW: Huge plug for VMWare, that's some
REALLY cool software, not just for runing windows on linux, but testing other
OSes... I can't say enough good stuff about vmware)
Thanks,
Shane.
