[mapserver-users] Mapscript alternatives

[TCHaddad]

But it sounds like Adam is on Windows, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of windows users on the Perl mapscript path...

or maybe they are all very quiet...


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Lowell Filak" <lfilak at medinaco.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:02:25 -0500

>In my biased opinion:
>As a sysadmin/gis-lead/programmer by using Perl I can use the same languge for everything I need to do.
>I'm no expert in Perl and I don't feel it was hard to get started. 
>My $0.02.
>Lowell F.
>
>The following message was sent by "Ryan, Adam" <ARyan at co.linn.or.us> on Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:20:52 -0800.
>
>> 
>> Greetings.
>> 
>> I use a pre-compiled Win32 binary of mapserver and I've got a pretty good
>> handle on the CGI portion, mapserv.  I figured out HTML and javascript, but
>> I feel limited and want to jump into Mapscript.  However, prior to using
>> mapserver I'd never even heard of perl, python or PHP, nor have I done any C
>> compiling.
>> 
>> My question is:  What are the pros/cons of each?  How hard is it to get
>> started (from scratch) in these things?  Is one more powerful than another?
>> How?
>> 
>> Any suggestions or links would be great.  Thanks for your time.
>> 
>> Adam
>> Linn County 
>> 
>> 
>
>