[thelist] Perl, PHP, Zope and CMS - are they only for programmers?

[DESCHAMPS Stéphane DvSI/SICoR]

> -----Message d'origine-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]De la part de James Odell

<snip>
> But seriously, what I really want to know is whether Perl and
> the others are
> all command driven - do I have to type in commands for the
> programme to
> work - like DOS or does Perl resemble Windows where I click
> to get things
> done?
</snip>

Good question. It's all a matter of what you want to achieve.

As for perl I can't answer, but here are my two cents of Euros for
ColdFusion, ASP and PHP.

I hear that products like DreamWeaver UltraDev or MX enable you to interface
databases directly and write the server-side code for you. That's good for
very simple DB interaction, maybe. But as soon as things get a tad
complicated you _need_ to be able to type your code, maybe not all off by
heart, but at least know the syntax and know where to look up on specific
functions.

Take a more precise example: PHP.
I know the syntax and a number of functions, right?
But:
What I use as a day-to-day reference: www.php.net
What I use as a day-to-day tool: phpEdit

What I mean (if not already said) is that you can't get away with no code if
you want to do professional server-side work. (and like most web people
today, I was not a programmer in the first place, mind you, I was a literary
student ;-)))

HTH
s t e f
http://www.nota-bene.org/