Re: Language choice for high-volume Oracle CGI interface?

Lee Fesperman wrote:

>> $fdat{my_form_name}
>>
>> No explicit lookup. Those seem like perfect matches to me.
>
> That's exactly what I meant -- those are explicit lookups. Similiar to a
> C function call
>-- cgiLookup("my_form_name").

You haven't got a clue how it's implemented, do you? It uses an extremely efficient mechanism (hashes), which makes it virtually instantanious. Tests have shown that hash (string indexed) access is only about 30% slower than the plain (numerically indexed) array access.

>Also, the dollar sign and braces notation is hardly
>intuitive to experienced developers from other languages.

For a VERY SHORT while. Say, two days at most. But not full-time.

>>>If you are recommending that Perl CGI is a good choice for an
>>>experienced developer in Perl, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
>>
>> s/ in Perl//;
>
>Another notation that is rare in other languages.

Their loss.

>> My experience with languages limited to one problem domain is that they
>> are just that: Limited.

>As if Perl was more than a scripting language!

Troll. You obviously hardly have a clue what you're talking about.

There is NOTHING you'd ever want do in CGI, that Perl doesn't support.

> If you want general purpose, try Java (On topic !?!), C, Assembly.

If you don't mind writing absolutely everything from scratch, or using somebody else's (buggy?) libraries.

        Bart. Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 02:51:13 CDT