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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > On Sunday 25 May 2003 5:24 pm, Paul Weaver wrote: > > Why do so many companies buy into the IIS/NT/ASP proprietry route? What is > > so great about ASP (active server page, not application service provider) > > that hundereds of jobs wanting ASP skills are posted on monster.com each > > week? Often they don't know better. ASP is shockingly useless. If you have no time or experience then you will follow the biggest loudest signs and end up with mediocre-at-best technology that will make life difficult - but MS end-users are already used to that with windows and think it normal. > cheap coders. Actually ASP coders, even inexperienced are not very cheap. Perl developers are often cheaper and better qualified except at the very low end (i.e. office junior self-taught from ASP for dummies), and most ASP developers are very inexperienced or worse still have a very narrow experience of re-implementing the same thing over and over (code re-use, decent components, standards and basic design principles are pretty much absent from the ASP world). > have you ever tried finding 12 mod_perl coders to come work in an office in > london? Very few tasks require 12 mod_perl coders. A couple of good coders can produce a great deal relatively quickly. > I have, and it's impossible - i had to train people myself instead.. Any decent graduate should be able to pick up perl fairly quickly, anybody with programming experience (in real languages like C, etc as opposed to ASP or PHP) should pick it up in no time. There is so much reference material and learning books on perl, there is not excuse not to learn it. After all after BIND, Apache and sendmail it is what keeps the internet running. A. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.