David: > > OK, I'll bite: php? Dear God, nooooooooooooooo! Is plucker going for a > > record number of languages used, or something? ;-)
> You forget whose house is right up the road, and whose house the Plucker > server is currently colocated within... Rasmus Lerdorf, author of php. If I hammer the server hard enough, can I make it catch fire? (OK, poor joke, I'm sorry... I've just seen enough bad php to last me many lifetimes.) > Seriously though, php is ideal for this over perl as much as I hate > to admit it. It does lend itself well to session handling and form > processing and very fast database access. All of which will be required > attributes for this system to work. [...] PHP programmers should all make sure they read and *understand* "Study in scarlet" before being allowed to start work. I don't see that your comments make a decisive case. Libraries exist for many other languages, including perl, to do what you want and most of those languages are more powerful and elegant than PHP. > Besides, I have a volunteer that knows php, and that's less work I have to > do actually coding it. I can get onto other things taking up my time and > burn through them. Yes, that's good, but are they going to help maintain it? > I make it a point never to turn down a contribution or contributor. That is not a healthy statement. Again, I know that's politically incorrect, but that's the way it is. -- MJR
