On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > here's the problem with custom fancy web-framework-du-jour stuff. > It's popular today. but out of fashion tomorrow. > A very small subset of people understand all of it today, and > almost no-one will, in 2 years.
If we reason by induction, Django existed since 2003 and is open source since 2005. Its user base is rapidly growing, I doubt that 2 or even 5 years is enough for it to fade to the state of almost no-one understanding it. 10 years, maybe. > You just have to write it in something that's going to be comprehensible > for the next 5 years. > So, PHP, or Perl. > [MAYBE python, if you really really have to :-) but strong preference is > perl or php.] I would stick with Python, I'm afraid. There aren't comparably good frameworks in PHP. CakePHP, maybe. But it's got fairly small user base, I think it could potentially fall within the "gone in 2 years" category. >> I'll be happy to get involved. If you tell me what kind of stuff you >> would like the application to do, tell me, and I'll write a proof of >> concept. > > That's kind of backwards. The more usual flow is, > "write it how YOU would like the application to perform, and then be > prepared to take lots of criticism on it" ;-) William sounded like he had some ideas, I was curious what they were. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
