No one is God, but it's funny what we define as weird. OpenMarket and Vignette Story Server (and obviously AOL) are built written with TCL engines - and they have big enough market share commercially to command some respect. I understand Vignette is moving to Java, largely out of market response to people who say "TCL's weird" without understanding it's place in the scheme of things. I've done sites in most combinations of tools, and really enjoy the simplicity of the AOLserver sites... I've gone back to maintain sites I did in perl (which I desperately love as one of the coolest innovations of the 1990's) and found I couldn't understand any of the cool hacks I had written without long head-scratching sessions. Similarly complex sites have been a breeze to come back to in TCL, not sure why - maybe because TCL was always intended to be very HIGH LEVEL glue - not a replacement for sed/awk/sh... While there are some things about TCL that drive me absolutely insane, I've found it's a good overall language for developing sites. Java is a systems programming language, like C, and is equally powerful as well as wordy, and it needs compiling. If I were reselling components, Java or COM objects are the only way to go - but for scripted sites, I thing AOLserver is the bomb:)
If I'm developing on my own, nothing beats the speed of development...
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No one is God, but it's funny what we define as weird. OpenMarket and Vignette Story Server (and obviously AOL) are built written with TCL engines - and they have big enough market share commercially to command some respect. I understand Vignette is moving to Java, largely out of market response to people who say "TCL's weird" without understanding it's place in the scheme of things. I've done sites in most combinations of tools, and really enjoy the simplicity of the AOLserver sites ... I've gone back to maintain sites I did in perl (which I desperately love as one of the coolest innovations of the 1990's) and found I couldn't understand any of the cool hacks I had written without long head-scratching sessions. Similarly complex sites have been a breeze to come back to in TCL, not sure why - maybe because TCL was always intended to be very HIGH LEVEL glue - not a replacement for sed/awk/sh ... While there are some things about TCL that drive me absolutely insane, I've found it's a good overall language for developing sites. Java is a systems programming language, like C, and is equally powerful as well as wordy, and it needs compiling. :)
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If I were reselling components, Java or COM objects are the only way to go - but for scripted sites, I thing AOLserver is the bomb
If I'm developing on my own, nothing beats the speed of development