[JDEV] RE: Implementing Jabber Server in other Languages (Was RE: [JDEV] Cus tomizing Jabber server)

[Max Metral]

Well, I'm not really sure that any amount of elegance would cause a perl
program to run faster than a similarly elegant C++ one...  I don't want to
get into a language war, but since I'm right there will be no need for one.
;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rolle [mailto:TRolle at uwgrocers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:36 PM
To: 'jdev at jabber.org'
Subject: RE: [JDEV] RE: Implementing Jabber Server in other Languages
(Was RE: [JDEV] Cus tomizing Jabber server)


> It seems like the prototyping point here is the strongest.  From a perf
> perspective, C/C++ all the way seems pretty important for carriers and
large
> ISPs (like us if I may be so bold), but not for people tooling around with
> new features...  If we all agree with this, the nice thing might be that a
> second/alternate language version would have an EXPLICIT goal of being
> readable and modifiable and NOT being efficient or cheaply/quickly
scalable.

These goals are not mutually exclusive.  The meeting/common point is called
"elegance".
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