[KLUG Members] Scripting language

[Jamie McCarthy]

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rdillenb@students.depaul.edu (Russell Dillenburg) writes:

> If you want a good "free" alternative to mssql or oracle you
> can use postgres -- it is just as fast as mssql (with some
> tweaking).

That's really not true :)

Postgres offers more features.  Adam mentioned three but MySQL
already has two of them (transactions and foreign-key constraints).
The third, stored procedures, is almost certainly going into
MySQL 5.x, which probably goes alpha late this year.

And MySQL is just really, really fast.



Andy, re your original question for what scripting language to
use... I really love perl and use it every day.  Learning perl is a
useful skill because it's a valuable language for many things
besides just writing the backend for a website.  It can be useful
for everything from everyday unix or sql administration to
mathematical modelling to GUI applications.  It has an enormous
library of open-source modules so you get to leverage other people's
code all the time.  And it's probably one of the top-five computer
languages as far as survival into the future, there is some great
development going on with it, good long-term planning.

But, if you want to get up and running fast, PHP is definitely
easier to learn.  Perl has many baroque features :)
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  Jamie McCarthy
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  jamie@mccarthy.vg

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