Debating web development toolsets

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Kareem Shehata wrote:

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>> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Chris F.A.
>> Johnson
>> Sent: Tuesday 08 January 2008 17:29
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>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Debating web development toolsets
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>>      For anything that HTML and CSS cannot handle, I use shell scripts.
>
> I can turn out some pretty mean scripts, but I value my sanity too much to
> try and do a full website in sh or even bash.

    Why would you ever want to? You use HTML and CSS to create the
    website.

    Use a programming language only for dynamic content.

    I have very few pages that are entirely generated by scripts, e.g.:

       http://cfaj.freeshell.org/wordfinder
       http://torquiz.freeshell.org/members/members.cgi

    There are, however, many more that have features that are generated
    by CGI script using SSI.

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