Re: [GENERAL] Web application: Programming language/Framework

2004-08-17 Thread Gustavo Franklin Nbrega - PLANAE
Off course PHP is a very weak language... Is than weak that SF.net have 9144 PHP projects and 3292 Python projects. Python is a very good language, but is discourteous (or that is a signal of knowledge lack) to speak that 'php is a very weak language', when knows that exist so many PHP

Re: [GENERAL] Web application: Programming language/Framework

2004-08-17 Thread Pierre-Frdric Caillaud
By weak, I meant lack of expressive power, not weakly supported. That PHP has a huge community is obvious. It's everywhere. The list of broken things in PHP is too long to mention, just think about namespaces for instance. I have no bad feelings towards people who use PHP, rather I wonder

Re: [GENERAL] Web application: Programming language/Framework

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Travers
Just a little on the history of the tools might be helpful. I think that these environments are easy to criticize by people who are not really aware of what the tools are really good for. PHP: This is worth noting in the context of this thread though fairly off-topic for the list. PHP was