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

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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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?

Apples and oranges...  Ajax is mostly javascript running on the browser 
side and can work with any interactive web server, where ruby and perl 
are scripting languages that work on the server side.  If you want 
speed, you'd use mod_perl under apache or a standalone mongrel running ruby.

However, it is probably a lot easier if you want ajax to use one of the 
server libraries that integrate things (Google Web Toolkit for java, 
Yahoo! UI Library for php, Ruby-on-Rails) or at least a library like jquery.

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   Les Mikesell
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