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Posted by Yolanda Cooper
Yolanda Cooper
2,271 Points

Best Language to Perform Basic Calculations

What language is best for a user input data into a form, post that data to a server have that server perform basic calculations (addition and multiplication) then return user input along with the calculated values? When would one use JAVAScript vs Python vs Ruby vs any other server side language?

1 Answer

Oliver Gibbs
Oliver Gibbs
9,771 Points
Oliver Gibbs
Oliver Gibbs
9,771 Points

That could just be done on the client side using javascript - no Post required. If you wanted to ensure support for users with no javascript then any server-side language could process the data from a form - Python, PHP, or Ruby would be fine.

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

+1. JavaScript is the ideal language for interaction with the user. Since it is client side, the operations occur on the client computer, not the server, and so you can allow for a lot more operations than if you were to implement a server side version. The reason behind this is that if the server has to do all of the calculations for each user, you're going to take up a lot of server resources. I would purely make it a JavaScript application and explain through a <noscript> tag that they must have JavaScript enabled in order to use the application.