> I understand servlets over php
> but you wanna explain python over php, you already have one
> slow scripted version that doesn't implement persistence at the
> level servlets would.
>
> No really I'm curious, I have one small-mid sized python web application
> and I'm not impressed with performance or resource utilization,
> is there something about python I don't know?
Let's not let this degrade into a language war. I'm not asking you to
agree with me, I'm simply stating my reasons for moving toward Python:
Several reasons:
o Exceptions handling!!!!! (I'm tired of typing "if (!$records)")
o Rossum seems to be an anal-perfectionist spartan such as myself
(whereas PHP's source code is notoriously bad).
o Python persistance requires very little work.
o Python is a much more "mature" language (it's hard to explain) with a
very nice syntax.
o I love the interpreter--it gives you the ability to "walk around
inside" your program.
I'm not knocking Freetrade in PHP (after all, I helped write it), but
there are several things that Python has that I've felt the need for
while working on Freetrade. Something that you might not be aware of
(or maybe you are) is mod_py, which allows you to embed the Python
interpreter into Apache the same way that PHP does.
My project, Aquarium, is simply FreeEnergy written in Python. Perhaps
your disgust is toward Zope or something.
-jj
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