<quote who="Michael Lake">
> A number of people indicated that while its easy to start with and setup
> once you start to want more complex things you run into limitations and
> kludges. Conrad also greed that Perl is much more extensible if one is
> ever wanting to venture outside of the web framework - something important
> that I must think about.
I think this is probably the most important point when looking at PHP as a
'solution', yada yada yada.
Right now, all you get with PHP is... PHP and its web development focus.
When you look at Python or Perl, there's whole other worlds of development
open for you.
Consider a company that decides to move its business tools onto the web so
it can impress the lamington drive ladies at the directors eldest's school.
The poor people doing it are going to be much happier if they can move their
code, classes, etc., over and reuse them all.
Consider the other way around, as I often have to. You're given a website,
and want to provide other interfaces and tools to the information... Say
you need to develop a GTK+ interface for editing products. Say you need to
modify the backend to handle a four machine data cluster.
Python (or Perl, if I were more familiar with it), please. PHP just gets in
my way. :)
- Jeff
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