Fellow Monks,

Daily Kos, which just happens to be the highest-traffic political blog in the United States at about 20 million unique visits per month more stats, will be rewriting their back-end.

They've asked for input from people who have used the languages/back-ends they are considering. I believe my fellow monks can add some valuable input to the discussion. The number of comments has already passed 750 comments and could definitely use some clarity concerning Perl and it's capabilities.

From the article:

Core web framework is dictated by language choice, and vice versa. If you're using Ruby, you're almost certainly using Ruby on Rails. If you're using Python, you might be using Django or Zope. If you're using Perl, you're using mod_perl, maybe with one of the higher level frameworks available from CPAN that build on top of it (Catalyst, Mason, etc.)

So, which is better? Anyone use more than one of them and have a real-world opinion?
If you have something to say or want to see what others are saying you can take a look here: Blog post link.

Tatnall

In reply to DailyKos is deciding between Ruby, Python, and Perl by Tatnall

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