RE: JSR 223

 >I was going to make the same point, Mark, except that there are
reasons to use the scripting languages, one of which is the large number
of available libraries.  

Total agreement here.  Whenever I start a project in PHP I very rarely
start from scratch.  For instance, I just wrote a small
callcenter/helpdesk app for a company and all I did was go to
hotscripts.com, download a GPL package, modify it to suite the customers
needs, and call it a day.  There are many well written packages out
there, surprisingly.

One of these days I am going to venture into Python.  Just too much talk
about it in these lists for me not to:-)

Aaron Bartell

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Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] JSR 223

I was going to make the same point, Mark, except that there are reasons
to use the scripting languages, one of which is the large number of
available libraries.  Ask Hans about Python and the available libraries
there, including a ton of built-in support for XML.

The problem, of course, is that you can run into the TMT (Too Many
Tools) syndrome; unless you standardize your ENTIRE application on PHP,
that means you may have parts in JSP and parts in PHP.  That means
anyone who wants to maintain the system needs to know both.

Joe