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On 02/01/2011, at 09:04, Grant wrote: > I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people > subscribed to this list. > > I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will > interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the > two projects might be both of them having access to the same database > table. The old project is written in a language that is related to > perl so I can imagine there would be some benefit to using perl for > the new project. Am I foolish to start a new project in perl at this > stage in its lifecycle? I won't be doing the coding myself and I > wonder if I would be better off with PHP since more coders seem to be > familiar with PHP than perl. TBH use neither, most people are jumping away from PHP and Perl. There is no issue with a change to your language now. SQL is a "standard" so using python, or ruby to interact with it will have no issues. Just make sure that you copy the database to a dev box first so that you avoid mangling your important data. > > - Grant > William Brown pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNH8QuAAoJEHF16AnLoz6Jj3kP/Rb+2kRj3CYzfp9sO3EgTnfw b7SHcz/wJaHPyK+fHftWJRAfpa7+8ymNmSLuQj/9/lBnn5/7OOw0GhGLC1zHJ96u nQLdToRXreSDd4ci6k9uVdlNP9qjrSSjBG3jAP5ZWnDwq7vNhAPD4M67i03uLCYC B1hJv+ZtFk98U6HivkJv9wO6GoE/QRNVtX1BS6y6ZvjiRF3qx5PPDRxAmqfgbDzk E04xBUOsXH1+yJKewZdoM3bIHUNxYpDK9IaSjDQVPJK8/TFn7ImNRP0aDbuUIpuH b95Ujq3ugbmE4ZD8hysD6oIgc8iGnEpmGuBCWuA3a/1VVx+e1p+qyPSriDVeFh15 gWKuxS6lAlqwlpXKrqnKMTfKzHivPTkw2/muMKAB09nC8lVEUvrj+K2es3rFfUI8 ZbiBIAVSJThgFLJfbWOQoh6AB6qqP5BMCAYtVTuuzKDVtc6ww5lipX4dejRooDl/ P9uAF1Yv8q9X3DNIF3LjVpPxEjzqUMFCKIUXQ1BDCUhST7YNPAyjxbbf5gTEcDN8 7XVBcCaT/fjtF/gxq2KKP/jlJLwgzuMxsmxON9snK8rUgODfGz1yutZOH70u7Gmg irC4V8uE1lNZVJgl/MQ2qXIBwcEtH+/+5eRvMHxSwtigNUqZcr0Re1h8Csk/rSuX XFGWRO4tas3sH+ReOB0e =QxHa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
