From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 20 10:41:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF65514CF8 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by mail.wcarey.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA77693; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) From: Woody Carey To: Artem Koutchine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web based main system in perl? In-Reply-To: <03cc01bf32c3$38018b20$0100a8c0@m1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Artem Koutchine wrote: > > So. I am writing a web based mail system (something like > HotMail) in perl. I have to do in perl, since the company which > ordered it put it in tech. reqs. > Artem, I think a project like this is going on, I forget the name it has. Some open-source 'Hotmail-like' clone. The name has been mentioned on this liet in the past 4 or 5 months. It is not in perl, though. I am not sure how wise it is for the client to demand it in perl. From what I have heard, perl solutions do not scale the same way say, c++ solutions do. That would not be my fisrt choice for a robust system. 2c Woody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message