Language war of the moment (was Re: [clue-tech] I'm blind, or why is this PHP fwrite() failing?)

[Angelo Bertolli]

Matt Gushee wrote:

> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>
>> I'm no programing wizard, nor language guru.  And I understand the 
>> lure of being able to build web apps quick and easy.
>
>
> Yes, and I think from a Web-design perspective embedded scripting is 
> very attractive because it puts you closer to the target domain from 
> the beginning. A script that generates a Web page is an abstraction, 
> and not everybody is good at thinking that way. A PHP script *is* a 
> Web page, or at least can be. From that perspective, a templating 
> system based on a more coherently designed language (Python, maybe?) 
> is even better, but I guess there wasn't much in that space when PHP 
> was invented.


I think this is the main issue for me.  I like PHP a lot, and mostly 
because it is so easy to embed into an already-existing infrastructure.  
It's also a very very relaxed language which allows you to think more 
about your web site design, and worry less about other things.  Also it 
gained a lot of popularity due to the fact that it had a lot of built in 
database access functions that "just work."  Alot of companies were 
built on PHP + Apache + MySQL.

Angelo

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