another data point: my phone (nokia 6210) could connect and display the first page, but shows
an error message "Seite nicht verfügbar" (page not available) when i try to follow any of
the links. the only link that worked was the "click here" banner.
In my experience, perl is just about the
most portable language around. Problems
come up when you call external programs
(e.g., unix tools) or assume the existence
of specific system calls (e.g, fork), but
most perl CGI scripts can be ported by
changing a few config parameters (location
of log files; document url).
Compared with this, java is nearly un-portable:
many environments are still in the migration toward java 2; and parts of the language
can be a major headache, even if they work
as announced (ever tried to store BLOBs via
JDBC in Oracle?;-)
last not least: Perl Modules are, on the average,
very easy to install, and with CPAN there exists
a simple method to find relevant modules.
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another data point: my phone (nokia 6210) could connect and display the first page, but shows
an error message "Seite nicht verfügbar" (page not available) when i try to follow any of
the links. the only link that worked was the "click here" banner.
could this be a simple page-too-large error?
After reading all the white papers on their site, I still don't know what 180 has re-invented: FORTH, the subroutine, or the Lisp machine?
Compared with this, java is nearly un-portable: many environments are still in the migration toward java 2; and parts of the language can be a major headache, even if they work as announced (ever tried to store BLOBs via JDBC in Oracle? ;-)
last not least: Perl Modules are, on the average, very easy to install, and with CPAN there exists a simple method to find relevant modules.