On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Kent Swisher wrote:
To Robert Garcia
I have started developing in PHP but find it very slow to develop
compared to witango. The old witango builder wizard worked for 80%
of our stuff and I really miss it in PHP.
Has anyone given much (any) thought to the concept of building your
app/site proof of concept in Tango for the ease and speed of building
the logical building blocks etc. And then once your FC is working as
you want then porting it to PHP. From way back when CF was the big
kid on the block I remember that the CF crowd came up with an app
paradigm called FUSE (or something) and that when we looked at it it
was basically a logic framework which mimic'd the Tango app
architecture. You would only have 1 page but in that page was all the
logical decisions on what to show the user based on the URL and their
user vars.
Anyway, it seems that if this was embraced by the developers then
someone on the list could make a nice biz of just porting apps to
PHP. The Tango developers could build the porting fee into their
original bid etc.
And finally for the sake of reality don't forget that the main
(perhaps only) reason that PHP is the defacto standard now was that
it was given away from the start and there is no way to effectively
compete with free. That's how IE pushed Netscape aside and now
NetNewsWire will push all the newsreader apps aside.
I laughed the other day when I saw the new decode for the acronym
PHP, I don't remember what it was but they are trying to make you
forget that PHP actually stands for "Personal Home Page".
M./
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