On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:22 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:24:59PM -0500, Logan Tygart wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not to lessen Russell's effort or the devotion of Zopies and Plonies,
> but I agree about PHP. Very very easy to use. I'm not sure it will do
> all the stuff that Plone and Zope will do, but it's sure as heck easier
> to use and does most anything you'd want.
>
> Paul
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-Rob
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