[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At the site I'm working on, you'd see a URL like > http://www.whatever.com/login or http://www.whatever.com/boards?id=131 > -- how would you count them? Such (extensionless) URLs are far more > common in the Python, Ruby, and Java world in my experience than the > PHP, Perl, and ASP world, so my first instinct looking at your numbers > is to believe they're just biased toward languages that more often put > the extension in the URL.
Yeah. CGI is more than Perl, CGI also includes TCL and Python, and perhaps some others. In my limited JSP developments, we didn't use file extensions. I don't think you can use any measure as an accurate yardstick, but rather as an impressionistic canvas. Just because there are five times as many .cgi extensions as .jsp extensions doesn't mean that Perl is five times more popular that Java. Also, web apps tend to stick around, and we don't have a sure way to gauge the age of these pages, so it could be that, in the last year, the ration of JSP to CGI pages is five to one in favor of JSP. To some extent, the popularity of technologies is driven by the available resources. If there are many more Java programmers than Perl programmers, then Java wil appear to be more popular, and vice versa. I know that colleges and universities teach Java in their CS and IS courses, and they don't teach Perl. CC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
