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Python vs. Perl vs. PHP?

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Thu Jul 31 04:36:16 EDT 2003 
Fazer wrote:
> [...]  I am basically looking for a FAST
> alternative to PHP meaning the responce time is fast.  Do you think
> that Python with using the CGI module is a good solution?

No, CGI is not a good solution in this case, no matter what the language 
(except those perverts who use something like C with dietlibc for this).

The base technology to make web requests fast in Python is something 
like mod_python or a Python application server. On top of this I'd 
recommend you use a Python web framework, of which there are numerous 
ones. The hard part is to evaluate them and choose one.

FWIW I'm currently using Quixote running with mod_scgi against Apache, 
mostly because I was fed up with the (lack of) Webware documentation, 
which I tried first.

-- Gerhard
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