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 Python vs Perl

Hi,

I've connected a database to the web with both python and Perl. Now my
question is which should I go with. Which one is a better language for
database connectivity to the Web? Which one has more info on the web and
more support? Which one is easier to learn?

-Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you,
Hassib Amiryar



Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:00:00 GMT  
 Python vs Perl

    Kevin> I've connected a database to the web with both Python and
    Kevin> Perl. Now my question is which should I go with. Which one
    Kevin> is a better language for database connectivity to the Web?
    Kevin> Which one has more info on the web and more support? Which
    Kevin> one is easier to learn?

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Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:00:00 GMT  
 Python vs Perl



Quote:
>Hi,

>I've connected a database to the web with both Python and Perl. Now my
>question is which should I go with. Which one is a better language for
>database connectivity to the Web? Which one has more info on the web and
>more support? Which one is easier to learn?

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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.
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000 03:00:00 GMT  
 Python vs Perl

Quote:

> 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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Mon, 01 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT  
 
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