As someone who is quote "outside of the web development community" and
has just asked on this very board whether Mysql JOIN = LEFT JOIN, your
opinion on the merits of Drupal is not worth anything.  Drupal has its
place.  If you are not a php developer them maybe you should take your
flame throwing elsewhere.

On Oct 28, 12:17 pm, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:58:43 Mark Rickerby wrote:
>
> > If you don’t mind me ranting a little, because I have been thinking
> > about this a lot, since I heard that announcement. Drupal’s success I
> > believe is due to two things:
>
> My point of view (being outside of the web development community) is that
> Drupal is incredibly complicated, bloated and won't do what I want.
>
> The reason it has so many fans is because a lot of web developers couldn't be
> bothered (or likely don't know) how to write commercial quality code, and
> they want to lock me in to bandwagon of upgrades and hosting that comes with
> such systems.
>
> I will stick with custom code - It does exactly what I want, can be directly
> integrated with my existing procedures and back end database, is a lot
> simpler/scalable and is *very* upgradeable.
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