Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Dan Boger wrote: I've been trying to be good, and seperate content from presentation. But since starting using Mason, I find that's much harder to do? That's because Mason makes the same mistake PHP does: it mixes your program logic in with your layout code. It

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Dan Boger
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:00:17PM -0500, Grant M. wrote: My biggest objection to PHP is that most developers write pages with the code entirely or mostly within the page, leading to an inherent inability to modify the layout without having at least a cursory understanding of the language.

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Uri Guttman
DB == Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:00:17PM -0500, Grant M. wrote: My biggest objection to PHP is that most developers write pages with the code entirely or mostly within the page, leading to an inherent inability to modify the layout without having

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:07, Uri Guttman wrote: DB == Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB I've been trying to be good, and seperate content from presentation. DB But since starting using Mason, I find that's much harder to do? Yes in the templating world, there are two camps, code

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Uri Guttman
AS == Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AS On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:07, Uri Guttman wrote: DB == Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB I've been trying to be good, and seperate content from presentation. DB But since starting using Mason, I find that's much harder to do? Yes

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
Grant M. wrote: It also ensures that the 'html monkey' does not make more work for the 'code monkey', which is my biggest complaint. I can't tell you how many designers I've seen wait until AFTER they've totally messed up some page before they ask about what that code was that they

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 16:08, Uri Guttman wrote: templating is not rocket science. that is why there are so many template modules on cpan. they are trivial to do basic versions. whether they mature into large systems like tt2 is another matter. True, but the advantage of having a baseline way

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-18 Thread Uri Guttman
AS == Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: versions. whether they mature into large systems like tt2 is another matter. AS True, but the advantage of having a baseline way of templating (and this AS is the BIG advantage of PHP) is that you can then abstract away from AS that and

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-15 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:37:29 -0500, William Goedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Tom - I've thought a lot about why perl hasn't gained respect in the deployment/hiring marketplace. Tom == Tom Metro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom This reminded me of something I've wondered about

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-15 Thread David Cantrell
William Goedicke wrote: Perl's strength, in my mind, is that it has enormous breadth. What I like is that it has always been a general-purpose programming language like C and Java, but unlike those two it has the CPAN and has a large and friendly community around it who help me when I'm having

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:33, Sean Quinlan wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 21:58, Tom Metro wrote: This reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. Why did PHP become as successful and popular as it is, even though it mostly offers a subset of what Perl can do. (I'm aware of

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-14 Thread Grant M.
My biggest objection to PHP is that most developers write pages with the code entirely or mostly within the page, leading to an inherent inability to modify the layout without having at least a cursory understanding of the language. This means that everytime a modification is made to the

Re: [Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-14 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Tom - I've thought a lot about why perl hasn't gained respect in the deployment/hiring marketplace. Tom == Tom Metro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom This reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long Tom time. Why did PHP become as successful and popular as it is,

[Boston.pm] mind share

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Metro
Ronald J Kimball wrote: Boston.pm will have a tech meeting Tuesday, January 25... ...post to the discussion list if you'd like to suggest a topic. I'd like to propose two possible meeting ideas, which I'll post separately so their merits can be hashed out in separate threads. Back in December Dan