Forum Software

[RacingDog]

Hi guys, sorry for being away, been busy writing a Delphi App.

I was just puttering around Wikipedia and found an article on Forum Software. They were comparing the various offerings. These were broken down according to what they were written in, ASP, PHP, Others. Others listed the specific language.

Won earth do I need to know what Forum software is written in? Can't you just get it and use it like any other software?

No doubt the worldly wise think this is a dumb question, but I'm just a retired embedded real time programmer, I know nothing of these things, they were always somebody elses department.

 

[Erel]

In most cases web servers compile the code at runtime. Which means that you have the source code available, and you can modify it as needed. So being familiar with the programming language is an advantage.

 

[RacingDog]

Ta for that.

Hmm. If I were a commercial software supplier, I would be deeply troubled by the idea of making source code available. It goes against all normal commercial considerations.