Ummm... I'm confused. Perl interfaces to the most common commercial
databases (Oracle, etc.) are available and widely used. Likewise for
the freely available databases I mentioned in my previous post. There
are no industrial-strength databases written *in Perl*, but that's
because it's simply the wrong tool for the job. (Java's a bit better,
but any substantial query-result cache, for instance, would probably
choke the garbage collectors of most current VMs; it won't be
reasonable to try to implement something like a full-strength DBMS in
Java until Sun starts to deliver performance improvements which
they've been promising for a while).
> But the java world is even worse. Client-side java is ludicrously useless
> (download times, browser incompatibilities, etc) and server-side little
> better. I learned enough perl to start building real stuff in little more
> than a month. But I've been climbing the java curve for nearly two years,
> learning lots but accomplishing little compared to what I can do in perl.
I'm more confused. I've been doing server-side Java for the past
year, doing development on Linux for Windows, and run into no
cross-platform compatibility problems of note. Then again, I'm not
using Macintoshes, and Java on the Mac has a reputation for being
flakier than Java elsewhere.
rst