application and web app technologies

[Matt Garrish]

<cartercc at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1136226294.170886.159690 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> January, 2006.
>
> * OO Perl/Perl6 -- Perl has worked real well for us, but we have
> doubts that it is the best technology, and we want to make a serious
> attempt to look at other things.

It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't sound 
like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that somehow 
you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of groups. I don't 
expect you're going to have much luck.

The fact that you list Perl 6 shows you aren't following Perl's development 
very closely. Perl 6 is not on the near horizon, and even as an avid Perl 
enthusiast I'd say you'd have to be insane to jump on it for production use 
as soon as it is.

That said, Perl is still one of the best choices for both Web and admin 
scripting, and I don't see that you'd gain anything by rewriting all of your 
existing code to Ruby or Python just for the sake of saying you now use Ruby 
or Python (not that there's anything wrong with either, but why rewrite code 
for the sake of rewriting it?). If you wrote terrible and unreadable Perl 
code, what's really going to stop you from writing terrible and unreadable 
Ruby and Python code? That's more a statement on your programmers and lack 
of in-house style than the language.

C# isn't too bad for Web scripting and quick GUIs, but I've never used it 
for admin scripting and the downside is that it takes a lot of effort to do 
tasks in .Net that are simple in Perl/Python/Ruby (particularly database 
work). I wouldn't use C/C++ for the web, but there's nothing stopping you.

Matt