Re: online store

[bja@Illinois.DynDNS.Org]

>> It's really frustrating to be a Perl bigot these days...
>
> You should get a load of the "new" and "interesting" stuff they're excited
> about
> in Java-land.
>...
> That said, I did hear one good quote:
>
> I'd rather stab myself in the eye than work on one more "web-based"
> application.
>
> Then they proceeded to talk about "rich client experience", which reached
> consensus that this means taking another stab at deploying applets.
>
> As opposed to something cool like Flash Remoting in Perl
> (http://simonf.com/flap/ -- check out the Petmarket implementation!) and
> Simon
> Wistow's http://thegestalt.org/flash/ modules for generating Flash objects
> on
> the fly. You know, leveraging something that Perl is not particularly good
> at
> (rich user interface) instead of re-inventing the wheel because you suffer
> from
> NIH syndrome.

Java is primarily a Sun/IBM venture with more Sun than anyone. Sun has a
huge problem with NIH and IBM only to a slightly lesser extent.

>
> Oh, well. Hearing about Tapestry (Erik Hatcher) and Pragmatic CVS (Dave
> Thomas)
> from the canonical sources was worth the suffering.
>
> Mike/
>

It's infinitely easier to be a python bigot. I don't know what version I'm
using, but stuff works. All the code I write works. Back to IRC...

brandon


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