Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: Sascha Kimmel Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: I feel a bit discriminated Date: 19 Jun 2000 14:18:43 -0000 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 53 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <20000619141843.5156.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: Sascha Kimmel NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 961424334 283313 255.255.255.255 (19 Jun 2000 14:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 2000 14:18:54 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12431 Erik Corry said: > Sascha Kimmel wrote: > > Atle said: > > >> Ask some easy questions ... who will mess with Perl if they know Beta :-) > > > I will do, because you can use Perl without compiling, which is especially > > useful for webserver programming. > > This is true. Not compiling is both the advantage and the disadvantage > of perl for CGI. On the one side, it's simple, on the other it is slow. Perl is slow? Hmmm... how about a benchmark? BETA vs. Perl? :) (But be sure to count the time from the microsecond you start the program :) > > The only possibility to use BETA for CGI programming is to use BETA as a > > language for programming a server! > > Actually you can use BETA for CGI. BETA is supported on the most > popular web serving platforms, SPARC Solaris, Linux and Windows NT, > so if you can get your BETA programs compiled, either by getting a > telnet or ssh login on the server itself or by having access to a > similar machine, then you can write your CGI programs in BETA. Our server uses FreeBSD and I banned the Penguin (Linux) from my PC to let the devil (FreeBSD) come in :) So now it's impossible for me to use BETA fro CGI apps. FreeBSD CAN execute Linux binaries, so it's possible to compile on a Linux system, but I cannot compile on the server and I don't have any Linux system here and don#t want to make a step back to Linux in contrast to FreeBSD! > > But why use BETA for CGI programming if Apache works fine? > > Okay, now there has to be someone to develop a server-side scripting language > > which can then be used to be interpreted to the BETA server. > > So something like ColdFusion in BETA (would be a huge project, remember that > > ColdFusion supports clustering) - now anyone who want to start? :) > > Well, I don't know about clustering, but if all you really want > from ColdFusion is access to databases then BETA has some pretty > neat SQL support. Is it fully developed? I remeber that it is only an experimental version, so I did not look at it. Regards, Sascha Kimmel