Add to that key extensions like Hibernate, Jakarta, and JBoss, and you have an entire system that can be an order of magnitude more complex than Embperl/Apache/MySQL. Is it better? Well, it sure ain't faster, but, yes, it will be more scalable.

Well - I'd have to disagree with that :-) I've had more problems with scaling Java systems than I have with Perl ones. Not that this was due to any deficit in Java per se, just that J2EE led them to modularise the systems in a way that could only scale by buying bigger hardware, rather than more hardware.

It's just as simple to write a scalable and reliable Perl application (or Ruby, or Python, or Lisp, or whatever) as it is to write a Java one. Most of the expertise in producing something reliable and scalable sits in the developers head rather than in the language.

In reply to Re^2: Whither scripting? Will scripting wither? by adrianh
in thread Whither scripting? Will scripting wither? by samizdat

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