cm_gui wrote:
Python is slow. Almost all of the web applications written in
Python are slow. Zope/Plone is slow, sloow, so very slooow. Even
Google Apps is not faster. Neither is Youtube.
Facebook and Wikipedia (Mediawiki), written in PHP, are so much faster
than Python.
Okay, they probably use caching or some code compilation -- but Google
Apps and those Zope sites probably also use caching.
I've yet to see a web application written in Python which is really
fast.
So --- don't use Google
* shrug *
Personally I find PHP to be a hideous language -- it has only one use.
It is Perl for people who can be bothered to learn a general purpose
programming language and just write web applications.
Python is a general purpose programming language ... it does web nicely
(Django and pylons!), it supports real OOP and OOD, it's extensible, it
has a smart set of libraries, intelligent and coherent interfaces, it
sails across platforms, it has at least one great ORM (SQLAlchemy) and I
keep discovering new cool things about the language as a recent convert
that make me wonder why I would ever write another large application in
Perl or Java.
I find Zope to be a mess and it gives me a headache ... but it Zope is
an *application framework*, not a *programming language*. So, I think
you are barking up the wrong straw man (if I may mix metaphors).
But that's just my $0.02.
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