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

2002-10-30 Thread Stone, Derrick J
] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ?? 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 things in PHP? I

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. -

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 things