Bad research. Seems like an old article. Too Bad. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, CL Chow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sahana, a FOSS disaster Management System, > Project homepage: sahanafoundation.org/ > Wikil: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahana_FOSS_Disaster_Management_System > > Originally written in PHP(which is now call Agasti) has recently branch a > Python version called Sahana Eden. > Here are some interesting reasons from the Eden developers according to the > wiki. > > As quoted from the project's wiki > eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsPython > > == Why replace PHP with Python? == > We believe we can attract more developers if we change from PHP to Python. > > PHP is not a good language for building large, maintainable applications: > http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/index.html > * especially when using it to write out complex Javascript (the syntaxes > are always tripping you up) > * doesn't enforce Object Orientation > * poor separation of Presentation & Code > > Python is fully Object Oriented ('everything is an Object') > > Python is an interpreted language, similar to PHP & relatively easy for > developers to adapt to. > > Java would be a reasonable choice, but the barrier to entry with Java is > much harder - setting up the compiler environment, etc > * this doesn't fit the RAD needs of the project. > * we can still access any useful Java libs via Jython: > http://www.jython.org/ > > Ruby-on-Rails might be a good choice, but that's primarily for Web2.0 apps > still & Sahana is more than just that.[[BR]] > Performance is also worse than for Python: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ruby > > Python also supports a wide range of libraries for adding extra > functionality, including in the GIS space:[[BR]] > (There are no PHP libraries for GIS) > * http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki > * http://featureserver.org > * http://tilecache.org > * http://mapfish.org > > Python is also the language in which the support infrastructure is > written: Bzr, Trac > > * ESR's take on Python: http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr > * Python as an Agile language: > http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/02/python-as-agile-language.html > * Python is fun!: http://xkcd.com/353/ > ---- > > Enjoy ;) > > Regards, > CL Chow > > > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general > >
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