in reply to CGI (Perl) vs JSP

JSP is what killed my love for Java. Marketers will tell you that it is faster than CGI, but they tend to look the other way when someone mentions mod_perl.

A company i used to work for replaced all CGI scripts with JSP ("um, have you considered mod_perl instead", "oh well, um, a-hem, um, we need JSP!"), and the site looks the same and runs about the same. Personally, i think that was a big waste of time. Starting from the ground up in JSP would be okay, but i really think a company needs to understand WHY they HAVE to use JSP. The main reason i can think of is that their programmers are really less than average. ;)

jeffa

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