Re: [Pas-dev] Re: Progress of Pas ?

[Kyle R . B. <mo...@vo...>]

> > 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. 

If we can come up a design for the features you need, perhaps we can start
building them.  I'm no accountant, though I have built sites that sell
on the internet.

> That's why Pas seems to be the best model. 

Thank you for that statement.

> I also think that Perl needs a 
> real application server to stand up against Java and Python and the like. 

So do we.  Perl certinly has as much (or more) potential as those other
technologies...no one has sat down and designed an enterprise level 
application server...at least not beyond integrating the interpreter into
Apache.  Application servers need more than just language support in a
web-server.


Thanks,
Kyle

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