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

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
If they are going to inherently mangle their php and perl and lose that abstraction layer I think in 2 years they will look back and wish TMTOWTDI was their only problem That said, Kudo's to yahoo for being this public about it. These are the sorts of publically available presentations

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

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
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 can't understand this statement.

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

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

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Servo
Check out their online map site, they do use Python for that. snippet o' URL: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=. You know you're going to have a bad day when you see the sun come up. Over the curb. Brian Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Gunther Birznieks

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