You know, even if PHP had a framework like Django, I wouldn't use it. PHP is clunky, has horrible code syntax, piss poor exception handling, awful garbage collection, weirdly named functions, and just feels 'wrong'. And don't even get me started on performance!
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jon J <urbanconfeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > KG, > > I've been a PHP developer for years and haven't reached outside of PHP > pretty much ever. After writing the same code over and over and > over and over and over again and always dealing with the same issues > (tweaking the database through a database manager, writing admin > interfaces, not having a broad enough codebase such as what Python > offers, solving the same problem over and over again, etc). I'm a very > disorganized person (it comes with the territory for programmers, I > imagine) and I don't have time to continually categorize and maintain > a personal common code base for every app I write. I love Django > because it cuts out all of the repetitive boring crap from the start > of a project. I'm sure that frameworks are available in PHP that are > similar, but to be honest I like Python a lot better than PHP because > it "feels" like a real programming language, and while PHP has its > virtues, I find myself using Python as often as possible to solve real > problems. Django literally forces me to abstract my code from > templating, which has traditionally been a problem when I've > collaborated with others on projects; designers assume they can code > and end up breaking the entire site. Now, I can delegate template > design entirely to the web designers and they can focus on their job > and I can do mine. > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:15 PM, km <srikrishnamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves < > law...@thenilgiris.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 08:56 -0600, Jon J wrote: > >> > I just stumbled upon django when looking for a good way to use Python > >> > in web programming, > >> > >> welcome to the club - btw, how did you manage to avoid stumbling over > >> django all these years? > >> -- > >> regards > >> KG > >> http://lawgon.livejournal.com > >> Coimbatore LUG rox > >> http://ilugcbe.techstud.org > > > > Hi KG, > > > > Pls dont drag the post unnecessarily. This is not your ilugc mailing > list. > > > > KM > >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Django users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
