> You've got a choice of classical web dev environments, like perl's Mason, > which are fast, but a bit difficult to code for, and so-called `modern' > web environments, like ruby-on-rails, or perl's catalyst (or php symphony, > if I'm right), which would be nice, except that they're REAL SLOW, and so > you need a killer machine to run any kind of web server. > > Google's approach of compiling java into javascript has not yet made it > to the world of php/perl/python, as far as I'm aware, though it might be > the real solution for maintainable ajax... >
I Wonder what amazon.com and Ebay.com use? it would stand to reason that they would need speed any place they can get it. I wonder if they use C? Sam Fourman Jr.