I am in a state of confusion and hope to find some enlightment.

We are looking for the right language to use in our next project. It will be the control of a large PostgreSQL database (>3 million entries, including several fields (also large textfiles in each)), make here excessive DB-searches, using the browser as a front end. We want also to make automatic research on other online-dabases via the browser and to update our DB with XML files. The usage of unicode is required.

I myself have some experience in C, LabView and a little PHP. I was told now to evaluate which language would be best for our project (suggested were PHP, Perl, Python and Java), but I find it hard to find informations about it, since it seems to me, that there is a battle of believe on the net about these languages, blurring the real issue a bit. Nevertheless, I hope to get some some advice from you concerning my problem.

Thanks for your time,

Gunnar

In reply to Advice of picking the language for my job, please by gb_lexter

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