Sahana, a FOSS disaster Management System, Project homepage: sahanafoundation.org/ Wikil: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahana_FOSS_Disaster_Management_System
Originally written in PHP(which is now call Agasti) has recently branch a Python version called Sahana Eden. Here are some interesting reasons from the Eden developers according to the wiki. As quoted from the project's wiki eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsPython == Why replace PHP with Python? == We believe we can attract more developers if we change from PHP to Python. PHP is not a good language for building large, maintainable applications: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/index.html * especially when using it to write out complex Javascript (the syntaxes are always tripping you up) * doesn't enforce Object Orientation * poor separation of Presentation & Code Python is fully Object Oriented ('everything is an Object') Python is an interpreted language, similar to PHP & relatively easy for developers to adapt to. Java would be a reasonable choice, but the barrier to entry with Java is much harder - setting up the compiler environment, etc * this doesn't fit the RAD needs of the project. * we can still access any useful Java libs via Jython: http://www.jython.org/ Ruby-on-Rails might be a good choice, but that's primarily for Web2.0 apps still & Sahana is more than just that.[[BR]] Performance is also worse than for Python: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ruby Python also supports a wide range of libraries for adding extra functionality, including in the GIS space:[[BR]] (There are no PHP libraries for GIS) * http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki * http://featureserver.org * http://tilecache.org * http://mapfish.org Python is also the language in which the support infrastructure is written: Bzr, Trac * ESR's take on Python: http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr * Python as an Agile language: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/02/python-as-agile-language.html * Python is fun!: http://xkcd.com/353/ ---- Enjoy ;) Regards, CL Chow -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
