A question for people who know Perl and Python

[Mr. FoRK]

Don't have the answers, but I think it is a really good question.
More questions...
 - Is the existing scalable system already doing HTTP?
 - If it doesn't, does it matter if the new HTTP stuff isn't as scalable?
 - If it doesn't, does the new HTTP stuff have to be auto-generated from
existing code?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
To: <FoRK@xent.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: A question for people who know Perl and Python


Suppose for the sake of argument, there were no XML-RPC (or SOAP).

Let's say I have a project and a member of the team works in Perl and has a
component that does something I need that's not trivial, it's deployed and
debugged, it scales; in other words, there no good reason to re-implement it
in another language.

Now assume I'm doing the user interface for this application in another
language, say Python, running on another machine. Further, assume it's a
good candidate for HTTP-based integration -- the messages that pass betw my
user interface written in Python and the Perl app would be one or two every
hour.

Now here's the question. What libraries would I use in both Perl and Python
to do this integration? What would the code look like? In other words, does
XML-RPC offer a new feature to Perl and Python programmers?

Dave



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