On 03/09/2007, at 22:57, Lior Kesos wrote:
Hi Herouth,
What I don't understand is the whole LAMP grudge your carrying
around...
From my experience (as someone that lives off LAMP related
training,projects, products) there is a big difference in the
development experience between wielding zope, doing home grown cgi-
perl development, custom php development, python coding etc...
I have focused on drupal a magnificant LAMP based cms and
development framework and although I hate php - I totally adore the
framework I develop in (drupal) and I can realize my cutstomers
vision which is quite satisfying.
It's all a matter of taste, of course. I'm sick-sick-sick and tired
of writing yet-another-page that displays data from a database. It
really doesn't matter if the language is PHP, Perl or Python (they
are just alternatives for the "P" in LAMP). I have no particular
preference for a language. It's the sort of applications that you can
build using the HTTP protocol that I'm sick of - web services, forms,
buttons, integrity checks. Oh, and Javascript is, in fact, my least
favourite platform. I find it unreliable, with compatibility problems
between platforms, and it's generally being used in order to force
HTML to do things it is not supposed to do. Eventually you may have
nice interfaces, but they are interfaces into nothing. If there is
anything interesting to be done on the backend, it's usually done by
a different class of programmers, and they provide the web
programmers with an easy API into their system, and so, all you have
to do on the server side is access the API, and do something with the
resulting data.
The truth is that all web applications are just sugar coated
information systems, and nowadays, with Ajax, they are really no
different than the client-server applications people used to write
back in the late '80s and early '90s.
All this is boring me to tears. I'm not at all sure airline pilots
have it harder. :-S
Basically, I think anything one has done for 11 years straight tends
to become boring, but really, there is no challenge in LAMP other
than trying to overcome the limitations of the browsers and the HTTP
protocol.
Herouth
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