On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:32:41AM -0800, brian moseley wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > But, you all know that php pretty much takes over. Why? For two reasons:
> > 1) initial corporate pushing (press/ads)
> > 2) once well known, the word of the mouth does the rest.
>
> oh, there's also the part about php being so much easier to
> setup and to program ;)
>
> if you really feel the need to compete with php in the
> lowest tier web app space, you need to make simplicity your
> #1 goal. php is awesome entry level technology, and i almost
> always recommend it over perl to people who only have the
> desire to do casual programming for personal sites and small
> projects. and that's a significant percentage of the people
> i know doing web programming.
>
Actually, PHP's advantage is that you can install it and all 250 sites on that machine
can use it without problems. You just can't do that sanely under mod_perl.
<snip>
>
> we need to create standards for ourselves and fully embrace
> them. DBI is a great example. the explosion of mod_perl
> presentation technologies is a great counter example.
>
But that's merely because we don't know what we want. Its only recently that people
have decided that they wish to present data in XML and use XSL to display it. Prior to
then the problem has been how to separate HTML from the code in such a way that the
designers have an easy to use interface to the code.
Ben
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