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Lasso Professional V Released

Posted by pudge on from the now-with-super-bleaching-mega-action dept.

MrGHemp writes "Blueworld announced the release of Lasso V, one of the most popular middleware programs running on Mac web servers. This is a major upgrade from version 3.6.6.2 and the first to work on Mac OS X. There are a variety of new tags, and a really nice implementation of MySQL. This is exciting for the Lasso community, because now we can upgrade our web servers to Mac OS X!" Maybe now we'll see a whole rash of Mac web sites that don't crash! (Sorry, that one couldn't be helped.)

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  1. Lasso will slowly fade away by Paul+Burney · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, but I think bringing lasso to OS X will slowly put it into retirement.

    Right now, there are a lot of good lasso web developers. However, once they're on OS X, they'll probably try some "really cool application" built with open source tools like PHP or Perl, especailly when they see that some other OS X site uses it.

    It's a very small step from just one PHP app on a box to "well let's just do everything in PHP".

    I went through the same transformation a few years ago when we moved from WebStar on a Mac to apache on Mac OS X Server 1.0. Up until that point we were kludging together solutions in CDML for FileMaker Pro.

    That OS was a nightmare(*shudder*) but it did bring me into the *nix fold and much better programming practices.

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