Michael Havens wrote:
> Well, I'll create my webpage and then learn C.
 > I know that webpages written in C must load quickly but
 > my page is going to be so simple that it won't matter.

If it's *not* simple, then it's too expensive to build
in C, so either way Perl wins hands down.  (I speak from
10+ years of C followed by 10+ years of Perl CGI work.)
Right now I'm working on a few perl programs, one's at
7000 lines, the other's a CGI at 4500 lines of my code
supported by a few thousand lines of library code.
Can you imagine how much C would be needed to do the
same amount of work?  Maybe 2 or 3 times as much.

Where a CGI in C can be justified is very simple logic
and a need for speed, plus very small size.  (I did one
a couple of years ago to run on a micro-controller so
tiny that it couldn't even boot Linux, so that code
never made it onto SourceForge.  Cheez, that was my
last bit of C code, a little over two years ago now.)
I love coding in C, but something like Perl, PHP or
Java makes a lot more sense for most applications.

C or C++ is where you go when you need really flat-out
CPU performance, such as an operating system, a
compiler or a graphic gaming system.  In anything else
you are bound by disk or network speeds and your CPU
is loafing, so it's hard to justify all the
craftmanship that C coding requires.

Vic


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