Well, flame war is the best way to assert something scientifically. Grow up. Tech changes and grows.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Rajaseelan Ganeswaran <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, it does highlight Python's elegance compared to PHP. > > As far as using frameworks are concerned, probably the tediousness of > rewriting something was outshined by the use of Python :) > > On Aug 7, 2010 12:11 AM, "Ahmad Farihan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general > >
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