[WEB4LIB] Re: Java and e-resource vendors

[Richard L. Goerwitz III]

Eric Hellman wrote:

> VB and perl are widely used for server-side cgi development. Their
> attractiveness relative to java is inversely proportional to the
> project size.

VB is being used heavily via ASP, of course.

Perl is a different issue, though.  Apache's API is completely in-
tegrated with Perl, so it's now possible to do amazing things with
Perl that go way beyond traditional CGI (and vastly improve on its
performance).  Embedded scripting, re-usable components, and other
features you'd expect in a decent web applications language are
also readily available with Perl.

Perl is looking more and more interesting.

(I just got back from hearing a big spiel about Ex Libris's SFX,
which is built on top of MySQL, Apache, and Perl, for example.  And
Brown's remote-access system is, interestingly, built on top of
MySQL, Apache and Perl.)

I say this not to deprecate Java at all, by the way.

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Richard Goerwitz                               richard at Goerwitz.COM
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