On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi, > > If you where planning on writing a new online inventory system with a > Firebird DB as backend. Yes that is what I'm about to do... What > would be the best choice of language? FPC ;-) > > For one I don't know PHP, but was told it is really easy to learn. I > know Object Pascal / Delphi very well. PHP is easy to learn. But it's nothing like Object Pascal. > What would be the advantages of one over the other. Currently when I > write Free Pascal applications I use tiOPF (Object Persistent > Framework) to handle all my object persistence. This also allows me > to switch DB backends without any code changes. I guess using CGI > with Free Pascal I can still take advantage of that. Yes. > > So 1 point to CGI and 0 to PHP. :-) > > Any more? Seems you already made your choice :-) You can also create an apache module with FPC. I would recommend that; It'll be a lot faster than CGI. If you want to reuse your existing code, I'd opt for that approach. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal