Apache, Linux, and Perl are state of the art today, but they
are not the ultimate future.
Without going into a religous war about it, the MacOS
isn't going anywhere for a while and any mac-specifc
tools created we will be able to take with us into a Linux
world.
IMHO Linux, Apache, Perl are worth the learning curve
unless we plan on having an OpenCard engine with all
capablities of Perl text processing anytime in the near
future, in which case dump Perl. A language is used to
express programs, programs do stuff, if you can express
a program in a language you already know, without major
performance, or maintenance hits, use the one you know.
If I have my way about it OpenCard will replace Perl,
and even C++. The future programming isn't translating
words, thoughts, and descriptions into cryptic symbols,
it's in speech recognition and Natural Language Processing.
Make the computer do all the work. Let us programmers
design systems and let the computer figure out the details.
Which reminds me that I wanted to make a recommendation
to the programming team that we contact the GNOME folks
and add AppleScript like funcitonality using OpenCard
to GNOME.
Really add some value to the OS. Can you imagine how
easy it would be to create simple administrative tools like
user managers in OpenCard? Have it be easy enough
so any joker who can write OpenCard can do GNOME
programming because an OpenCard interpreter is just as
standard on the GNOME platform as Corba is?
AppleScript is a primary part of the MacOS from what
I can see, it may not be very sexy in most people's eyes
but it gives programmers a common thread which they
can all rely on when communicating with other apps.
This is an important step in freeing up the commercial
world to adopt OpenSource stuff.
-- Michael --
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 5/16/99 4:58:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<Alain : One of my colleagues keeps pestering me about Linux, Apache and
> Perl. He insists that they are the future, and that we should phase out
> our commitment to the MacOS and mac-specific tools. I am not so sure.
> For one thing, it would entail a lenghty non-productive re-learning
> phase that I can't personally afford to do for now. Is my colleague
> right ? Is the "Linux, Apache and Perl" trio so hot that they can no
> longer be avoided? How long does it take to port one's Mac experience
> to this new configuration? Would you be willing to give me a helping
> hand ?>>
>
> get Mac OS X Server and you can get all three
