[Pas-dev] Re: Progress of Pas ?

[Kaare R. <ka...@ka...>]

> Could you tell me, just out of interest, what does Freemoney do??

Freemoney is a financial application with Customer, Product, Order, General 
Ledger and Accounts Receivables.
It is a project I started "for fuN" and because I have a business here. I've 
personally used it since May 2001 and it is now in a state where I can say 
that I use it for all my business needs - except Accounts Payables, which I 
can handle manually.
The design and development has been ad hoc and has really been a learning 
process as to what can be done on the Net - and has been slow due to the 
lack of time.
So I would describe the current status as "prototype finished" - though it's 
a working prototype (I use it, remember?). 

The prototype is based on
 - PostgreSQL as database
 - Perl as language
 - Apache as web server
 - Interchange as embedded language 

There's nothing wrong with Interchange per se, but I've evaluated the 
development process and decided that it's a very error prone and 
non-extensible model to blend database, process and presentation code in one 
html page. 

That's why Pas seems to be the best model. I also think that Perl needs a 
real application server to stand up against Java and Python and the like. 

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