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Subject: Re: More succes stories, please From: "Ron Savage" <ron@savage.net.au> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:21:04 +1000 Klaus H <klaus@hotmail.com> wrote: To: <dbi-users@isc.org> > I would like more perl success stories. > We have been programming this website and we started in > perl. And it works fine. And fast too with fastcgi. But > some in the project have made a part of the website in > java. And they say that java will be the standard for > website development. So the boss's wants everything > converted to java. Its just that, the java guy's haven't > shown any results. Bosses are strange. > I hope this is the right place to cry :-) > > So if I had more success stories I would feel better.. But it probaly > wouldn't help if I showed it the to bosses. > Anyway, i'm also looking for danish perl programmers. > Where I work they started with ASP, and _very_ expensive programmers. There programs they wrote were mediocre, so management got rid of all of them. Then they (management) tried using PHP, but it is very unreliable. You run a program twice and get 2 different answers... Now everything we do is in Perl. Java is like a big club thugs use to beat us Perl programmers with. But I say, making _every single programmer_ write in Java is like making _every single driver_ drive a Toyota. That's thuggery - a dictatorship. It's a psychiatric problem, it's not a programming problem. === Subject: Re: More succes stories, please From: Thomas von Elling Skifter Eibner <thomas@io.stderr.net> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:30:56 +0200 Hello Klaus, On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:56:52AM +0200, Klaus H wrote: > I would like more perl success stories. http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html http://perl.apache.org/stories/ > We have been programming this website and we started in perl. And it works > fine. And fast too with fastcgi. But some in the project have made a part of > the website in java. And they say that java will be the standard for website > development. So the boss's wants everything converted to java. Its just > that, the java guy's haven't shown any results. Bosses are strange. Is it just me or is the impression of Java that it's just sooooo slow? Isn't there also a lot of time spent on development? With Perl you have _very_ fast development, which should be excactly what your boss wants (eg. more cost effective). Why only fastcgi? There is the excellent mod_perl too :-) Which I am using all the time here at my workplace at Lasat Networks in Bagsvaerd. > So if I had more success stories I would feel better.. But it probaly > wouldn't help if I showed it the to bosses. I can't point you to a specific success story of my own, but we simply love the ease of programming here. > Anyway, i'm also looking for danish perl programmers. I am one :-) Hej! ===