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Just a small question

by FrankQC Jun 17, 2009 8:11PM PDT

For web development which is better, C or Perl?

I think it's Perl but I'm not sure.


Thanks for your input.

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Re: languages
by Kees Bakker Jun 17, 2009 8:34PM PDT

Definitely PERL. Or quite a few others, like PHP or ASP.NET or JSP and more.

C isn't used for web development at all. In fact, C is hardly used at all anymore. Where did you get the impression that it would be suitable?

Kees

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by FrankQC Jun 18, 2009 5:20AM PDT
C isn't used for web development at all. In fact, C is hardly used at all anymore. Where did you get the impression that it would be suitable?

Haha just because I can't decide between C or Perl. I want to do Internet-related scripts so I guess my best chances are in cgi/perl. C in my case wouldn't be too bad cuz I use *nix and C is the default programming language in it.

Thanks,
Frank
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For CGI, perl.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 17, 2009 10:38PM PDT

It's very wide spread but I'll show my hand here and reveal I'm on a development involving Visual Studio 2008 and a .NET 3.5 application. Given that we could use ANY of the languages that are in VS2008. That would mean that the CLR (read from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Common+Language+Runtime%22 ) which in this case is .NET we would have to have such on the web server.

But why do that is a very long discussion.

Let's just use PERL and move on.
Bob

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Why not PHP or ASP
by gourmelin Jun 24, 2009 11:28PM PDT

Why do choose betwee C and Perl?

The most popular languages are PHP and ASP.NET I think.

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Because Perl is really good and flexible.
by FrankQC Jun 24, 2009 11:44PM PDT

Not saying that the other aren't, but Perl is just amazing! And I like programming it, that's why I chose Perl.

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