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> Start with <URL:http://www.python.org/python/Comparisons.html>.
> My personal sentiments, which at this point aren't worth backing
> up with evidence, are:
> * "database connectivity to the Web": umm, maybe Perl
> * "more info ...": Perl
> * "easier to learn": Python. Either. No, definitely Python.
> Maybe.
It depends on what's being done with the database. At a previous job, Perl
was used for low down dirty grunt work. Because of how low it had to go,
there were problems (a lot of it dealing with the initial implementation)
prettying it up for the web. But using Python and Bobo with
DocumentTemplates, I was able to create pseudo-business-objects in Python,
creating a pseudo-3-tier architecture. Perl dug around and farmed and mined
and grokked this hideous data sources on the backmost end and fed that
information to Python. Python attached more easily maintainable and changable
methods for the presentation of that data and handed that to DocumentTemplate,
which rendered the data into HTML for the client. It was a mixture that
worked well for a while at least (ego's and different visions of the system
tore things apart more than anything). But there really is room for both.
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