On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Richard Esplin <richard-li...@esplins.org> wrote: > Snide troll inserted below. > > On Friday September 9 2011 15:40:32 Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Everyone wants a magic bullet. If you're suffering under a mass of >> unstructured php code, the structure and discipline of Java probably >> sounds like just the thing you need. If you're stuck with a Java >> behemoth with labyrinthine class structures and elaborate patterns >> that no one can follow anymore, the git-er-done attitude of PHP >> probably sounds pretty appealing. They're polar opposites, and both >> extremely popular, so it's not surprising to me that a bunch of people >> want to switch from one to the other. In most cases it's probably a >> mistake, though. > <snip> > > Because they should all have been using Django from the beginning.
Not even the awesome power of Django can save a codebase from architecture astronauts or spaghetti-slingers who would screw up an app if you handed it to them complete on a silver platter. Good developers with good management and a bit of good fortune could make a nice web app in COBOL if they had to. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
