Re: [Cooker] http://rpms.mandrivaclub.com

[Michael Scherer]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:10:11 Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 février 2007, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> > Le mercredi 21 février 2007, Fabrice FACORAT a écrit :
> > > Le mardi 20 février 2007, Stefan van der Eijk a écrit :
> > > > Sophie != Mandriva.
> > > >
> > > > Can it handle the load?
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that Mandriva web services are able to handle big load too
> > > ... or support a disk crash ...
> > >
> > > > What service levels?
> > > > Who will Mandriva call if things go wrong?
> > > > etc etc (with all due respect)
> > > >
> > > > From my POV: sophie is nice for insiders, but I'd hesitate to link it
> > > > directly from a commercial Mandriva site.
> > >
> > > In this cas, what about adapting Sophie ? We shoulod stop duplicating
> > > efforts and maybe use more tools from community ( especially as they
> > > are better maintened ).
> >
> > Everyone wanting to contribute is welcome, you need to know:
> > - rpm
> > - perl (template + CGI)
>
> Why does everyone want to use perl ....
> I'm good at SQL, I'm good at PostgreSQL, but I suck when it's about perl :(

Because this is quite high level ( ie no memory management stuff, this is 
something better done by computers than by humans )

Because it is fast enough, both to develop and to run, at least in the case of 
Sophie.

Because you have lots of modules allowing to directly code most of your pogram 
without using the basic building brick, or simply debug it ( see cpan.org )

And because there is lots of people knowing it, and it is not really so hard 
to learn.

And the language by itself is quite mature.

While each of these points are not unique to perl, I think they explain why 
some people choose perl. 


-- 
Michael Scherer