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Posted by Neo Geshel on 04/21/07 21:08
Sherm Pendley wrote:
> Neo Geshel <gotcha@geshel.org> writes:
>
>> ncleasby wrote:
>>> Please tell me the programming language + tools used to create web
>>> applications such as Google's Docs & Spreadsheets and similar apps.
>>>
>>> I do have some idea, it's just that there appears to be a number of
>>> languages and tools which can been used, I just want to know what is
>>> the most popular/standard.
>> To do things like what Google does, you will need to know databases,
>> xml, Javascript, Javascript + XML (AJAX) and Python.
>
> You don't necessarily *need* Python, although it's certainly more than up
> to the task. You could write the server-side code in Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP,
> or really pretty much any language that suits your style.
>
> On the server, the output is what's important; browsers neither know nor
> care what language is being used to produce it.
>
> sherm--
>
Well, the poster *did* use Google as an example, and that is what they
use on the majority of their web projects... Yes they use other
languages, but Python is their favourite. Having worked with it myself,
I can certainly understand why.
IMHO, the only “friendlier” server-side language out there is Ruby, but
it doesn’t scale anywhere near as nice as Python (it is interpreted at a
much higher level, and so needs much more system resources from the
server under load).
...Geshel
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