Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: Erik Corry Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: I feel a bit discriminated Date: 19 Jun 2000 14:01:45 GMT Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mj=F8lner?= Informatics ApS Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <8il949$8ket$1@xinwen.cs.au.dk> References: <20000619124653.2169.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: amigo.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 961423305 283101 255.255.255.255 (19 Jun 2000 14:01:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 2000 14:01:45 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (IRIX64/6.5 (IP27)) Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12427 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. > 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. > 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. Yours, -- Erik Corry erik@mjolner.dk