"Jon Slaughter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of any detailed and objective comparisons > between the major languages(perl, php, java, javascript, etc...) > that might help me get a clearer picture?
I don't know of any (really good) comparisions, but anyway here are my opinion: Don't look only at something someone calls "major language". The not-so-well-known one may offer you quite some nice extras. If you have to deal with medium to complex application give continuation based approches (Seaside (Smalltalk), PLT/Scheme, Cocoon (Java), UncommonWeb (Common Lisp) and others; to get an idea look at http://lisp.tech.coop/Web/Continuation ). What language do i seem interesting to look at for web development? Hmmm... let's see (listing in random order): - Common Lisp (my personal favorite) - Scheme (PLT/Scheme, Bigloo,...) - Scala (http://scala.epfl.ch/) - Nice (http://nice.sourceforge.net/) - Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/index.html) - Python Scala and Nice compiles to Java-Bytecode and you have access to the complete Java-World (AFAIK there are such JVM-Compilers for Common Lisp and some Scheme, too and there is JPython). I don't like Perl syntax much, so it's not on the list, and PHP is a rather chaotic language with (personal view!) at least a couple of new security issues eacht month, so it's the worst choice one can make (i think). Hope that helps a little bit. -- Stefan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
