Steve Holden wrote: > When someone starts to push the limits of PHP they either continue to > push until they get where they want to be (producing an ugly or > ill-maintained bunch of code along the way) or they choose a more > appropriate tool. > > The latter behavior is typical of programmers. The former is typical of > typical users. There are many people producing web sites who I wouldn't > let within yards of any of my code. but it's some kind of tribute to PHP > that it manages to satisfy so many of them. This doesn't mean that > grafting PHP features into Python mindlessly will improve the language. > > The Python approach is a scalpel, which can easily cut your fingers off. > The PHP approach is a shovel, which will do for many everyday tasks.
Exactly right on. I actually use PHP quite a bit. For websites that would otherwise be static html pages other than the fact that I want to reuse elements (header, footer, etc.), I choose PHP in a heartbeat, because it's easy, and I'm lazy. Ditto if it is a simple db-driven site. Start adding business rules and complex program flow and I run away from PHP as fast as I can. I wouldn't want to actually code anything in it, after all. ;) I've seen comments that mod_python is hard to use, but I just haven't found that to be the case. For me, mod_python is the next step up when PHP no longer suits my needs. Granted, I'm spoiled because I run my own server and don't rely on some hosting provider to tell me what I can and cannot do. :) -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
