I don't know you man, unfortunatelly I can't evel spell your name... but I really like you, because the way you feel about python is exactly the same way I feel about it :-) I was thinking there is no one else on this world who hate the way of python's syntatx just as I do :-)
And as I already stated once, I didn't start this discussion to start a war (not that I wouldn't like it) I just wanted to find out what's so cool on python and why in the world would people prefer it over php. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Виталий Филиппов <vita...@yourcmc.ru> wrote: > Hi! > > The question is a good base for a holy war :-) > I want to say that PHP has some advantages Python will never have - it's very > simple in deployment, there is no fuss with library versions, nearly all > needed features are already built-in including a good SAPI (!) so you don't > need wsgi, psgi and etc, you don't need any virtualenvs for deploying because > nobody typicaaly uses pear libraries :-) > PHP is faster (if you don't take pypy and etc in account). > Also I personally HATE block formatting using indentation. It's so silly idea > no more language in the world has. Also for example I don't like python's > strict typization ideas (for example it throws exception if you concatenate > long and str using +). PHP is simple and has no such problems. > And for webdev I don't like frameworks, either. I.e I don't like them at all > - because I always feel they are trying to restrict me. So Django is not an > argument for me, and may be not an argument for you too. And definitely you > can't say django is just better than php. > What php misses it's the builtin metaprogramming, but in 99% cases you should > better write code instead of doing metaprogramming. > So for webdev my opinion is that php is MUCH better than python. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
