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On 02/01/2011, at 09:04, Grant wrote: |
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> I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people |
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> subscribed to this list. |
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> I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will |
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> interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the |
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> two projects might be both of them having access to the same database |
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> table. The old project is written in a language that is related to |
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> perl so I can imagine there would be some benefit to using perl for |
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> the new project. Am I foolish to start a new project in perl at this |
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> stage in its lifecycle? I won't be doing the coding myself and I |
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> wonder if I would be better off with PHP since more coders seem to be |
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> familiar with PHP than perl. |
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TBH use neither, most people are jumping away from PHP and Perl. |
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There is no issue with a change to your language now. SQL is a "standard" so using python, or ruby to interact with it will have no issues. Just make sure that you copy the database to a dev box first so that you avoid mangling your important data. |
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> - Grant |
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William Brown |
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