Re: website development and maintenance, using Perl. Please help!

>"Andrew" <hawk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1128099419.845450.253760
>@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
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>> Dear Perl gurus and enthusiasts
>
>Oh, please don't.

Not sure what you mean by the above. If you're not an enthusiast at
least, then my post wasn't addressed to you and you could have
abstained from your dampening cynicism. If you feel I am in some way
mischaracterizing this newsgroup, then say so. I have advocated Perl
for years, to people who otherwise had no exposure to Perl. And I have
done this with utter conviction and enthusiasm about its excellence.
Not to mention, building things with Perl which made people appreciate
computer technology... (all the while reminding my colleagues and
friends about the real geniuses behind it all - Wall, Schwartz,
Christiansen, and the many others.) And I was expecting allies here in
this respect.

>> I appeal to you because I seem to be at a significant crossroads as a
>> web developer and consultant for a nonprofit educational institution
>> who has been, for several years, kindly entrusting me with developing
>> web-based database applications, and I have been fairly accommodating,
>> with Perl CGI scripts and mostly MySQL backend (sometimes illiciting
>
>Hmmmm ...

a rather meaningless and unhelpful response (ambiguous at best)

>
>> Having mainly focused on database apps, i don't seem to be up-to-date
>> on what the latest and greatest web-development strategies implementing
>> Perl/OSS are.
>
>I think you have put the cart before the horse.

My organization's priorities have been with data collection. Such were
the circumstances at that time, that building a website was second
priority to developing web-based data tools.

>> Also, why this craze over PHP? To me PHP seems to be an inferior
>> imposter bullying its way into the sphere of influence, unscrupulously
>> shoving aside the real McCoy (Perl) - or did I miss something? (some of
>> my colleagues, who may be involved in the said website project, who
>> have heard for years that I am a Perl enthusiast, and have witnessed
>> Perl's fruitfulness - just a few days ago "slapped me in the face" by
>> producing a list of tools they would like to explore for the job -
>> which included PHP but not Perl! ?#$!? )
>
>>From the long-winded and imprecise description that I have snipped, I see
>no indcation that you (or the others on your team) know what the
>requirements are.

I regret the longwindedness. However, apparently, you paid more
attention to the length of my message than to the details therein: it
is long precisely because I explain my objectives. And if you think my
objectives are not viable, then you could have had the curtesy to tell
me how/why they are not.

>You each have a pet issue, and you want to win.

Oh, please don't.

>Search Google for CMS. Search the archive of this newsgroup for CMS.
>
>See what you come up with.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Verbose statement, superfluous to the previous one.

andrew

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