.oO(Andrew Lee) >Personally, I believe PHP would get you more productive more quickly for >a blog, but it is a potentially brain damaging language in terms of >really getting your juices flowing with programming. It is not a >general purpose language
Please elaborate. >and suffers from all the limitations of of a >tool designed for one job. Please elaborate. And what "one" job are you talking about? There are many things possible with PHP: web apps, shell scripts, daemons, GUI apps ... >If you are interested in programming and the >blog is your path to that, stick with Python! <flame>Where whitespace is more important than the code.</flame> Seriously, it's just a question of personal taste and preferences. In terms of capabilities there's absolutely no difference between PHP and Python. You need a good understanding of programming in general for both, the rest is just syntax and the available standard libraries. >In particular, immerse >yourself in mod_python or look at a framework like Django or Pylons -- >the learning curve is steep for any of these technologies but they are a >full meal compared to saltine cracker and water of PHP. If you don't like PHP, that's perfectly OK. But you should accept that it's only a tool and just as good as the one who uses it. For me and many others it's a quite good language, we're able to write clean and efficient code with it in a rather short time. PHP is much more than just crackers and water. Of course you should know how to cook. Micha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
