On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 5:37 pm, Anupam Jain wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to host an interactive (possibly database oriented) website > from a spare PC over a dedicated broadband net connection.. In your > opinion, which would be a better option to develop the server side > program - Python or Java? Esp in terms of better (free) development > tools and maintainability.. I just love python as a language but > using Netbeans/Eclipse for java and the vast java libraries (maybe > with Jython) seems to be a tempting possibility off late..
try django+postgresql. Django is the new python kid on the block. In my opinion, open source software is better written in scripting languages than in java for the simple reason that it encourages non IT professionals to play around with the software and improve it. I am constantly amazed at the number of people who are happily using tools like django and wxPython to build websites and gui apps - and cheerfully admit that they know only the rudiments of python. I know one guy who has built a working db based website who is yet to *start* learning python! This is not an exageration - it is a fact that it is possible to modify and embellish programs without being able to actually write a full program in a particular language. What happens with a scripting language is that you have 'commented' sections saying - to produce effect X, uncomment here. I suppose this is also possible in java, but would be much more difficult to achieve. Further, when using a scripting language, the user can see the effect of the change immediatly as it is just modify-run-modify again. -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
