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?
Of course, Pascal! :)
For one I don't know PHP, but was told it is really easy to learn. I know Object Pascal / Delphi very well.
For pascal developers, PHP is a mess. We use it simply because everybody use it, for matter of community support.
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.
There's a pascal based CGI framework used to be called PSP (Pascal Server Page) but the authors had change the name to PWU (Pascal Web Utility?). Before I know PWU is existed, I use PHP, but now, I choose PWU. If you prefer OOP approach, you can use O-PSP (object PSP) another branch of the (default) procedural PSP.
So 1 point to CGI and 0 to PHP. :-)
If building CGI with no framework, I prefer using PHP. But since I knew PWU, I switch to PWU. Slowly but sure, I'm converting my PHP apps to PWU. Using FPC and PWU, there's almost no boundaries to what you can do to a web based app. We can use almost any FPC's frameworks/components/libraries on our CGI app. If you want to dirt you hand a little more, it'd not too hard to convert your CGI app into an Apache module. :)
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