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BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails'
Bogtha writes "Long-time users of Perl for their public websites, and having successfully used Ruby on Rails for internal websites, the BBC have fused the two by creating a 'Perl on Rails' that has the advantages of rapid development that Rails brings, while performing well enough to be used for the Beeb's high-traffic public websites. This is already powering one of their websites, and is set to be used in the controversial iPlayer project as well."
> they would teach you to use short and clear sentences.
Shortness does not make for clarity and can often add ambiguity.
While you might levy other criticisms against Rails, performance is not one that sticks. Scaling a Rails app is like scaling any other Web app framework. I'm consistently amazed that people go on with the Rails is not scalable mantra, yet they have never tried to scale a Rails app, or probably any Web app for that matter. Scalability problems generally occur at the database level anyway, which affects all Web frameworks equally.
Bottom line is trying to replicate Rails in Perl instead of figuring out how to scale Rails for your particular app smacks of not invented here syndrome, general cluelessness, and going around a horse's ass to get to its nose.
> Clearly you have trouble understanding short and clear sentences
No, I don't, but likewise I have no problem in understanding long and clear ones. The original sentence, while long, was quite clear to me.