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I have been writing some CGI scripts in C++, and I was wondering if anyone else has done the same? I have built a pretty decent sized library of functions I use a lot for formatting form inputs and such. The reason I chose C++ is because I'm so familiar with it. I was wondering if I should do myself a favor and learn a language a little more popular for CGI scripting. From what I know so far, perl or bash scripts wouldn't be as portable and reusable as c++ code would be. What is everyone's opinion on using C++ vs other languages like Perl or PHP
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I've done enough CGI with C and C++ to realize that they're very poor languages for it. Perl, or any language with powerful string handling capabilities, is much better suited to CGI.
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c++ has strong string handling capabilities.
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>c++ has strong string handling capabilities.
Bwahahahaha!
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>Bwahahahaha!

What so funny _jsw? I thought c++ style strings had reasonably good string handling capabilities?
Or r u making a comparison of pearl's regex library?
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>What so funny _jsw?
C++'s string handling capabilities are horrible. Not the worst, that's a spot reserved for C, but pretty low on the totem pole. Anyone who says that C++ is good at text manipulation clearly hasn't don't much of it. That's what's so funny.
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Quote originally posted by Narue ...
>What so funny _jsw?
C++'s string handling capabilities are horrible. Not the worst, that's a spot reserved for C, but pretty low on the totem pole. Anyone who says that C++ is good at text manipulation clearly hasn't don't much of it. That's what's so funny.
hmm, I admit the perl regex library out-do c++ style strings... but c++ style strings still support all these and lest we forget, there is nothing stopping you from using c++ with the boost library.

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>I admit the perl regex library out-do c++ style strings...
Regex isn't a library, it's built into the language.

>c++ style strings still support all these
Primitive operations that I would expect from any string type. That's not exactly an argument that C++ strings are powerful.

>there is nothing stopping you from using c++ with the boost library
Oh, then that means I can counter you with CPAN?
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>Regex isn't a library, it's built into the language.

That's what I meant. He he.

>Primitive operations that I would expect from any string type. That's not exactly an argument that C++ strings are powerful.

Hmm, but what separates perl from c++? The fact that the regex utilities are built in as opposed to the boost libraries in c++ that are not?


>Oh, then that means I can counter you with CPAN?
Yes you can. :lol:
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Hmm, but what separates perl from c++? The fact that the regex utilities are built in as opposed to the boost libraries in c++ that are not?
It's quite simple. You can get a lot more done in Perl in a given amount of time than you can with C++. It's not worth the extra effort to use C++ because you don't get any considerable speed benefit. You'd be better off paying for a better server and using Perl than you would be using C++ on one cheap server, because bandwidth and perhaps database access time is the main limitation on the end-user's perception of speed.

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  1. #!/usr/bin/perl -ap
  2. eval(("\$s[-2]$_=pop\@s",'push@s,$_')[!/^[-+*\/]$/])for@F;$_="$s[-1]\n"

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