In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis M. González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> . >> . >> . >> Perhaps it's timely to clarify the "newer" above: Guido >> made Python public in '89-90, and Rasmus showed PHP to >> others in '94-95. > >OK. But since when has python been considered a viable alternative for >web development? >As a generalp purpose language, it's older. >But as a web development language, it's olnly when people started to >look for the "rails killer" and many python alternatives started to >come up (although Django has been in development for a long time before >all this hype). >I remember well, just a few months ago, there were many alternatives >(remember "subway"?). >
I appreciate your clarification. I can report back that we certainly move in different circles; I, for example, knew of people with multi-million-dollar budgets deciding on Python- based Web technology for *serious* applications in '96. Ruby 1.0, perhaps you'll recall, was a Christmas gift for 1996. For this and allied reasons, it didn't occur to me to regard Ruby as the senior "Web development language" among the two.
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