[CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 17:42:52 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Gary Greene<ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote:
> If you're looking for shear speed, C++. However if you're looking for ease
> of programming paradigm with OO ideas, etc, then Ruby or Python. If however
> you want a middle ground, go Perl. It is fairly fast (faster than Python and
> Ruby), and is fairly extensible for talking to the OS. Note however Perl's
> object framework leaves much to be desired from OO purists.
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Thanx Gary, this is a quick analasys of what I'm looking for, and helps a lot :)

I have done some PERL coding on websites before, but very little, yet
it was very easy to pickup with my PHP skills.

As a front-end, I would consider Ruby, and / or AJAX. Could these
inteface well with PERL?


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