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trache · 02-24-2005, 09:42 AM

I did a simple search on this forum for threads, but came up empty. Hopefully no one minds too much if I made a mistake! Here we go:

I like PHP on the whole, but I'm beginning to see things that make me interested in switching... the user contributed notes don't suffice, the documentation is very poor, and functions sometimes do not work as intended.

I've played around with C, PASCAL/Delphi, PERL, PHP, very little Java (my server at home is too puny to run it well) for the web.

In short, I'd like to find another programming language to create my journal website in... does anyone have any suggestions, advice, reasons why, and perhaps examples of websites created in such languages?

ratbastid · 02-24-2005, 10:48 AM

It's no secret that I like Perl. I've worked in PHP and Perl both for several years.

I'm not crazy about the CGI interface, though. It's slow, memory- and process-intensive, and just basically not very sexy.

That's why I recommend you search the mod_perl interface to Apache. Basically, it embeds the Perl interpreter into Apache itself, and gives you amazing hooks into every piece of the Apache response process. S'nifty. AND fast.

PHP running as a shared object is about as cool. But I like some separation between logic and presentation. "Page-embedded" langauges like PHP or (shudder) ASP mean you can't hand your templates to a non-programmer designer to edit in Dreamweaver.

02-24-2005, 09:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
trache Insane	Interpreted/Script Web Programming Languages I did a simple search on this forum for threads, but came up empty. Hopefully no one minds too much if I made a mistake! Here we go: I like PHP on the whole, but I'm beginning to see things that make me interested in switching... the user contributed notes don't suffice, the documentation is very poor, and functions sometimes do not work as intended. I've played around with C, PASCAL/Delphi, PERL, PHP, very little Java (my server at home is too puny to run it well) for the web. In short, I'd like to find another programming language to create my journal website in... does anyone have any suggestions, advice, reasons why, and perhaps examples of websites created in such languages? __________________ "You looked at me as if I was eating runny eggs in slow motion." - Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip

02-24-2005, 10:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	It's no secret that I like Perl. I've worked in PHP and Perl both for several years. I'm not crazy about the CGI interface, though. It's slow, memory- and process-intensive, and just basically not very sexy. That's why I recommend you search the mod_perl interface to Apache. Basically, it embeds the Perl interpreter into Apache itself, and gives you amazing hooks into every piece of the Apache response process. S'nifty. AND fast. PHP running as a shared object is about as cool. But I like some separation between logic and presentation. "Page-embedded" langauges like PHP or (shudder) ASP mean you can't hand your templates to a non-programmer designer to edit in Dreamweaver.