Re: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Richard Clarke wrote: > List, > You are probably not the best people to ask for an answer which > might advocate PHP, > but. > Can someone who is more proficient in PHP than I (I have used it > for 5 minutes) explain to me why it is quicker to prototype th

Re: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Tom Servo wrote: Check out their online map site, they do use Python for that. I'm actually surprised they didn't go with Python, because the people I know there love it. If their backend data processing ever gets moved from Perl to something else, it would probably be moved to Python. - P

RE: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Stone, Derrick J
The first thing to note is that our working definition of intuitive here translates to: based on prior knowledge. PHP is a tag based language and places relatively complex functions at the fingertips of your average joe newbie. It is therefore more intuitive and remarkably faster to develop wit