From: Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T01:24:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Project: in Ruby, Perl?

Louis M wrote:

> Zach Dennis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've got a small project coming up at work that will deal with a MySQL
>> database. It will be a small scale inventory management and
>> production/purchase order management system. We are trying to decide 
>> what
>> language to write it in. We have ruled out Java, C, C++, anything 
>> .NET and
>> Python. We have Ruby and Perl left on our list(although we may include C
>> extensions).
>

>
> Why have you ruled out J2EE? All the concurrency and transaction and 
> security features you need are built into the application server.
>

Unfortunately, so are a lot of features you *dont* need.
 Many J2EE shops I've seen seem to be 90% scaffolding, and 10% useful 
code (imo).