>  You've got a choice of classical web dev environments, like perl's Mason,
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>  which are fast, but a bit difficult to code for, and so-called `modern'
>  web environments, like ruby-on-rails, or perl's catalyst (or php symphony,
>  if I'm right), which would be nice, except that they're REAL SLOW, and so
>  you need a killer machine to run any kind of web server.
>
>  Google's approach of compiling java into javascript has not yet made it
>  to the world of php/perl/python, as far as I'm aware, though it might be
>  the real solution for maintainable ajax...
>

I Wonder what amazon.com and Ebay.com use? it would stand to reason
that they would need speed any place they can get it.
I wonder if they use C?

Sam Fourman Jr.