On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 05:34 -0300, marco bernich wrote: > What language would you like? i like python!
I like Python for it's readability and it's the only language I have been using recently. There had been short stints with Visual Basic long ago, C, C++. Conceptually, I dig Smalltalk and Lisp. I might like Scala, Erlang, OCAML and Haskell, but can't claim to understand the concepts beyond pattern matching, especially in the Haskell case. Regarding mindshare and reuse, Python will most likely win, once you exclude PHP. Though in a case like this, the decision should be about language and framework in conjunction. The framework should * help to avoid common security issues * support AJAX/Comet * allow good performance/scalability * make storing/retrieving from a database a non-issue (no or minimal boilerplate code) ... http://liftweb.net seems interesting as a very full-featured framework based on Scala. The event-driven nature of http://nitrogenproject.com/learn might be nide. http://www.seaside.st/ and http://weblocks.viridian-project.de are interesting for using continuations, among other aspects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation http://www.djangoproject.com is of course the most popular choice in the Python realm. Personally, the best-of-breed approach of http://pylonshq.com / http://turbogears.org/2.0 appeals more to me. Now if only there was a easy/quick way to determine if the features of one of those less well known frameworks would lead to a net win ... -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
