Re: [WAY OT] Re: PL/java?

No offense, but I've been developing under your language since nearly
it's public conception... and perl is _great_.

Frankly, I don't want to argue with you, because you'll simply defend
your own creation without reasonably evaluating the situation.

But I think everyone needs to remember that we shouldn't make a decision
about this because of everyone's political stances behind languages,
especially if they haven't had development experience with it.

-Knight
-----Original Message-----
From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:37 PM
To: Alex Knight
Cc: Daniel Kalchev; Alex Pilosov; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Knight <knight(at)phunc(dot)com> writes:

Alex> However, mod_perl is absolutely slower than most any j2ee application.
Alex> If all you are doing is keeping a session variable to count number of
hits
Alex> on a web page, then sure, perl is more than sufficient, possibly
faster.
Alex> But when you start doing anything of importance, enterprise level
stuff,
Alex> you need something scalable in ways java can go, but perl just doesn't
Alex> seem to have _easy_ or sometimes _existant_ ways to implement.

I can't let this stand. This is not a universal opinion or
observation. Obviously, *I* have an agenda to promote as well, but
what I'm quoting here is not the only truth availablel, so test it out
yourself, or get an independant opinion.

Alex> How would you go about synchronizing session data on 10
Alex> application servers running mod_perl _without_ using the
Alex> database to "mirror" that data in memory? It's not very
Alex> difficult to do it in Java.

Whatever you can do in Java here, you can do in mod_perl. Perl is
close enough to the metal to get at anything Java can reach, and I'd
argue even closer, since it's trivial to link C (or even Java) with
Perl. :)

Can we stop bickering now?

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