Fwd: One Last Requirements Doc: Hosted Scanner

[Diman Todorov <diman () xover mud at>]

sorry david :)

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> From: Diman Todorov <diman () xover mud at>
> Date: May 23, 2006 4:27:07 PM GMT+02:00
> To: "Jones, David H" <Jones.David.H () principal com>
> Subject: Re: One Last Requirements Doc: Hosted Scanner
>
>
> On May 23, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Jones, David H wrote:
>
> > "You have a bit of latitude in selecting the language for this  
> > system.
> > Perl, Python, or C would be good choices. PHP is probably not OK."
> >
> > Just wondering what you have against PHP... :)
>
> I dont know about PHP but I am certain C is a bad choice.
> Web applications are 90% string parsing and unparsing.
> C's support for string handling is only very rudimentary.
> The remaining 10% are database connectivity. At least in
> my experience this is a lot more convenient if you don't
> have to think about memory management. The performance
> gain which potentially comes with C is usually not an
> issue in web applications.
>
> In case the choice of language is undecided I think
> Python with Zope or Ruby with Ruby on rails have potential.
>
> As far as PHP is concerned, I can't think of a reason which speaks
> against python but doesn't speak against Perl. Maybe I am missing
> something?
>
> cheers
> Diman



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