On May 21, 1:10 pm, notbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, here's my delimna: I want to start a blog. Yeah, who doesn't. > Yet, I want learn the guts of it instead of just booting up some > wordwank or whatever.
Here's a simple computation to consider... WordPress' codebase is approximately a megabyte of PHP code and megabyte of JavaScript code. Assuming that the average line of that code is 50 characters long, you are looking at 20,000 lines of code in PHP and as many in JavaScript. Based on the notion that the average developer out there writes 100 lines a day, either you're in for a two-year project or your product is going to have seriously reduced functionality compared to something that's been freely available for years. What's your choice? > Then I run across that blog, Coding Horror, and start reading > articles like this: > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html You should read what some computer scientists write about SQL... :) > Now what? Nothing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. You are free to form your own. > I've taken basic basic and basic C, but am barely literate > in html. Maybe that (and some JavaScript) is something to work on first before delving into server-side programming? > Well, that's my actual question, then. Is php really so bad > I'm just wasting my time? Or is it really the quickest way > to blog functionality? The quickest way to blog functionality is an account on a blogging service... :) > Would I be better served in the long run learning python, which > claims to be easy as pie to learn/program (still looks hard to > me). I admit I'm no code geek. But, I'm not completely brain > dead, either, and I need something to keep my geezer brain > sparking. What say ye? If the purpose is to keep the brain sparking, it doesn't matter what you learn as long as you're enjoying the process. You might as well take up Japanese while you're at it... Cheers, NC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
