Re^2: Web design and Perl/CGI business logic programming

they will never match a * fat/rich * client developed in C++/VB/... etc.

Never is a mighty long time. In just a couple of years Google's online apps have for many obsoleted desktop mail and calendar applications. The hard limitations on web applications are becoming historical (low bandwidth, dodgy embedded-code engines, lack of real layout facility). The single distribution point makes some amazing things possible too. How much would it cost to buy the entire app + DB of Google Maps? Since it's not a desktop app the cost of the thing can be spread out across the web in thousandths of cents instead of single-point $5,000 licenses.

Not to say that it's the example to follow. It takes a huge amount of effort, expertise, and manpower to make apps like that.

Agree about MVC. If done right it creates scalability in design. Start as small/thin as you like and the pieces can be moved up one at a time (like driving the View with JS with no change to the Model and little or maybe even no change to the Controller) or all together as you like.

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Re^3: Web design and Perl/CGI business logic programming by vit (Friar) on Aug 22, 2008 at 21:12 UTC
I found Catalyst for perl MVC. It it what I probably need?	[reply]
Re^4: Web design and Perl/CGI business logic programming by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 23, 2008 at 01:04 UTC
I adore Catalyst. It has caveats (deployment requires a persistent environment -- cf, modperl or fastcgi -- to be reasonably fast) and it has a somewhat steep learning curve. But the docs are always improving, the code base gets wider and smarter all the time, there are more and more articles and examples online, the community is great, and many other Monks are Cat users/devs too so you can ask questions here as well as on the Cat list. Search in here for Catalyst and you'll find related stuff including possible reasons to use other things like CGI::Application.	[reply]