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

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it?

um, thats somewhat mixed up. user -> browser -> apache -> php that interprets your script -> OS function

with a native compiled language like C++, its user -> browser -> apache -> compiled C++ binary -> OS function

not really -that- different, as theres far more overhead in all the rest of the process than in the actual script or program,unless its doing something very computationally intensive.

also note, PHP is a preloaded module, while your C++ program probably gets forked on every webpage, unless you write it as an apache module... ooops.