Andreas Hartmann wrote:
I think we should seriously consider migrating to another platform.
I'm sure there must be good reasons that most CMS's are written in PHP
anyway. There are some quite powerful frameworks (Zend, PEAR) to
implement complex web applications. Combined with a mature JavaScript
library like Dojo or YUI we could create a productive system in an
acceptable timeframe. I think moving to PHP would also help to
increase the potential user base.
BTW, recently I did a project using .Net, and I was very positively
suprised and think it would be a viable alternative. We could finally
get rid of those endorsed libraries issues and of all our legacy code.
Maybe there are other platforms worth considering? E.g. Ruby on Rails?
I think we're missing the bigger picture here. Servers are coming with
more sockets and more cores. It's now about concurrency, not how fast an
individual thread runs. It is way too tough to do this in an imperative
language. For this reason we should switch to a functional programming
language.
At the top of my list would be LISP. If something as powerful as Emacs
can be written in LISP, I think it would serve us well. In fact, if you
issue a C-x M-c M-cms, it will generate the skeleton of a CMS in LISP
for you. If you tack on a 1, that will get you the Clojure derivative,
which may be a little more modern, and get us away from all of the
parentheses.
I think the strongest option would be to write it all in XSLT. Think
about it, it's a Turing complete functional language. We get concurrency
and the ability to run on any platform with an XSLT engine! It could
then run under Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, or PHP. Sadly, I do not know if
there is an XSLT engine for PL/1.
Richard
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