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

On 06/15/2009 08:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

I meant scale in terms of program size and complexity. You can hook a web interface to a database in about any language and crank things through as fast as the database can respond - especially if you load-balance across a bunch of servers. But how complicated can you make something before you hit a wall with multiple developers clobbering each other or becoming so version-dependent that you are afraid to update anything?

you should look at ruby, it fix's most of the issues that people have with java code growing too large to manage :) its one of the key issues cited by people moving from java to things like ruby. Specially people who work with tdd and agile tools.