At Wednesday 15/11/2006 21:28, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >Michael Torrie a écrit : > > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:55 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: > > > >>>- Python is more readable, and more general purpose > >> > >>Yes, php is only for web. > > > > Absolutely false. > > From a purely technical POV, you're of course right. But PHP has been >hacked (nobody in it's own mind would pretend it has ever been >'designed') for web programming, and since the language by itself is >totally and definitively braindead, using it for anything else is either > masochism or lack of knowledge of better solutions. Heck, even Perl is >better for pure admin/scripting tasks.
Someone here (= at work) needed to write some PDF reports, to be run from a bunch of ini-like files. Without much research nor analysis nor thinking nor approval, he said "let's use this php library!". Surely the reports came in a few days. But: - another dependency was added to the project - the .ini format -which was suposed to be an internal implementation detail- is now part of the public interfase to the report generator - a lot of PHP code duplicates the original class hierarchy (in delphi) - php sucks :) Of course there are a lot of unrelated issues here, but I think that it's such a braindead language which turns people into braindead programmers :) -- Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
