On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:24:59 -0500, Logan Tygart
<thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us> 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.
>
Perl is can do *anything*. You want function currying? You got it.
You want closures? You got it. You want OO? You got it.
Python is the same, the syntax is just not my cup of tea ... ;)
Ruby is beautiful, it's a clean language.
PHP is a breeze. It also feels like a toy language. http://tnx.nl/php
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