On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 08:56 -0500, Russell Hires wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 01:24 -0500, Eric A. Hicks wrote:
> > Russell Hires wrote:
<snip>
Riddle me this...
As a BOFH, with a good sized web server farm, I see things like this:
Perl is/was the duct tape of the internet. Perl is excellent at parsing
text and strings, but semi difficult for Web Creatures, who like to call
themselves Webmasters, to comprehend and did not want to delve into the
guts CGI.
Python exists as an alternative, for the aforemention Web Creatures, who
found PERL too difficult to comprehend as a language to parse their text
and strings. Thus they use it, possibly unknowingly, as an alternative
to PERL. Now they have Zope to use as a CGI.
That said, why not use PHP? From my point of view, as a manager of Web
Creatures, PHP was created to do web things that neither PERL nor Python
were created to do originally. Most folk I have encountered who can
grasp the complexities of either PERL or Python, find PHP a breeze.
Possibly, this is an, "Ask /.," question, but I am curious to know what
the local SLUG fiends have to say.
The Logan
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