Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-15 Terurut Topik CL Chow
The more we're exposed, the more we'll understand... and the more we able to see the pros and cons ;) Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Boh Yap

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-15 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
Ang, you're right, this is all in fun... those of us who know a few languages know that.. perhaps the pt is to educate the noobs, or the monolinguists ;-) On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM, darXness darXness wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ang Chin Han wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-15 Terurut Topik darXness darXness
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ang Chin Han wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: >> >> hola guys, >> php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting >> php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how >> the battle goes muahahahahaha >> OSCC is do

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-15 Terurut Topik Ang Chin Han
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > > hola guys, > php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting > php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how > the battle goes muahahahahaha > OSCC is doing a benchmark on those 2 .. things we're looking at: > - sca

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-15 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
A few points here: @Haris, Nuhaa better to scale down the scope, Python vs PHP FOR WEB PROGRAMMING, would be a better directive. But being unfair to Python? I hardly think so. Frameworks like Django can go head to head with Joomla anytime, Zope/Plone can scale to Wikipedia/Facebook size anytime

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Marcus Low
So in conclusion to what i am saying : PHP is ugly because its trying to do what it was not designed for and doing that to "survive". But PHP in web dev is undeniably simple and nice and it should be kept that way. Hence my first postingPHP vs Python ? Are you kidding me! Marcus Low

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik CL Chow
isn't sql not turing complete??? i like c++ when syntax highlight is on, beautiful :) Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Marcus Low wrote: > Use

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Marcus Low
Use cobol then . C/C++ is not ugly. They have a learning curve and no way should it be associated with PHP. C/C++ is the mother of all the popular languages you know today and what did you think PHP, python interpreter, linux, windows, OSX is written in? The badminton racket is not a correct

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Mohd Fenris
Don't forget the opera browser :) Sent from my iPhone On Apr 15, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel > wrote: Browser still OK. Just carefull when conclude it. Both browser build for 2 different things. Firefox is a full blown Web Browser build to cater public use. Very wide scope Chr

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Browser still OK. Just carefull when conclude it. Both browser build for 2 different things. Firefox is a full blown Web Browser build to cater public use. Very wide scope Chrome is still in beta and consider a research for Google. It mean to make Javascript websites run faster. To secure the br

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik mohdfenris
Haris, how bout the browser? Still ok right? Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -Original Message- From: Harisfazillah Jamel Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:21:57 To: Cc: nuhaa Subject: Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python Nuhaa, >From all the feedback. I believe you need to review b

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
But remember, sometime company don't use python or what not, is because of the skill within the staff. so sometime it is best to test it out, to see which goes, written code maybe? On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nuhaa, > > From all the fe

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Nuhaa, >From all the feedback. I believe you need to review back comparing python and php... Its already hot discussion in OSDC.my and Its will be hotter when release to public Internet ... Better compare it with other language like Ruby or Scale down the scope. Like Comparing Python and PHP in

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Azril Nazli Alias
Learn To Program :: Pragmatic Programmers ( They use python 3 ) On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, saifuladli ismail < ismail.saifula...@gmail.com> wrote: > what is the best book for the beginner to learn Phyton from scratch..TQ > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > >> hola guys, >

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik saifuladli ismail
what is the best book for the beginner to learn Phyton from scratch..TQ On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > hola guys, > > php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting > > php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how > the battle goes muahahahahaha

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik E A Faisal
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM, CL Chow wrote: > lol Faisal, I don't think you can compare PHP with Python on that lol, it's > a completely different story XD > > That's exactly what I'm trying to say (hidden point). You can't really compare PHP and Python - it's like comparing rambutan and du

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi
few days back I just solved a problem which can actually be done by GAWK (but unsure how), fortunately I did it with Python. Basically text file processing stuffs. Although quite n00b with Python (as to every other comp.lang as well) hehe... python packages are enormous, ranged from system level a

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Azril Nazli Alias
I spent almost 1k on RoR books...still I code in PHP Now I'm exploring Live Streaming & CDN. I'ts something like you have BMW M3 at home but use kancil for everyday use :D /me looking for m-par 18" -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
Java is the new Cobol! to follow up on what someone mentioned eralier: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=42242 my exact sentiments! When I wanted to learn a new language after Basic and a few 4th GL (remember those days?!) I actually tried Java, gave up in frustration, then disco

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi raja, sorry didn't quite understand what you saying... but if you need help with python related stuff you're always welcome. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > boh, i might (this is still a long shot) have python in our ida2 for the > textual analysis engine ;-) cu

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
Amran et al, true, thats an old argument,... it depends on the skills of the craftsmen, but if that craftsmen is so good, and he can do good things with crappy tools, don't you thing he can do even more wonderful things with better tools!? think... if Leonardo had access to modern tools, super-co

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi, one thing I forgot to add, Python is great as a beginners language, ie: for teaching programming, to kids to Comp Sc students etc. It has all the paradigms and jargon for modern languages, its free, and its easy to get started. And did I mention, its just about the only language I find that i

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Amran +10 Hehehe. Its all depend on the programmer. If he or she good and know what he or she want any programming language suitable for him or her. Programming is an art. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Ahmad Amran wrote: > I think if someone saying PHP is ugly is like saying C and C++

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Ahmad Amran
I think if someone saying PHP is ugly is like saying C and C++ is also ugly. If they all ugly siblings and C is no 1, C++ no 3 and PHP no 4 this month on Tiobe index. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html . I think i dont mind being ugly:p. (luckily I'm quite hands

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik CL Chow
lol Faisal, I don't think you can compare PHP with Python on that lol, it's a completely different story XD Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, E A

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik E A Faisal
Among the reasons why I don't use PHP are because its a pain to do asynchronous socket programming (Python have Twisted), stable binding to DBus, stable binding to WxWidget and stable binding to OO.org UNO. -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http:

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Marcus
Take a break, forget python, ruby and php : http://beerpla.net/2008/12/16/the-ultimate-programming-language-lolcode/ Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: maybe this thread should really be python vs perl vs java ? but php is still the top language for web cms : http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-so

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Marcus
There was a point in time in the windows community that Basic becomes Visual Basic and was the most popular language for developing desktop apps on win32. However the inherent ugliness of the language and how OOP was forced to it so that it could stay alive was like a Frankeinstien on steroids

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-14 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
maybe this thread should really be python vs perl vs java ? but php is still the top language for web cms : http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners open source cms awards : 1. 2009 1. wordpress - php 2. modx - php 3. silverstripe - php 2.

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
becareful with that, PHP is still huge in web based development. facebook still using php for example. it just gone mainstream, therefore lack the buzz, imho On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Marcus Low wrote: > Python vs PHP? > U must be kidding me. In Windows terminology that is like : current

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik Marcus Low
Python vs PHP? U must be kidding me. In Windows terminology that is like : current C# vs early 2000 ASP scripts. One is flexible and general and growing exponentially, the other is niche and barely going anywhere except whats its started for. Marcus. Boh Yap wrote: hi, PHP... I don't use i

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
boh, i might (this is still a long shot) have python in our ida2 for the textual analysis engine ;-) current engine developed by malaysian. now at early negotiation stage to employ the guy. the guy also has a working prototype for image analysis ;-) for now it is for recognising the species of a p

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik CL Chow
Correction ;) ruby, not ruby on rails, it's a framework(different category,so not fair) Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < lin

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Sepatutnya Perl vs Python PHP vs Ruby on Rail :) Saja nak bagi panas. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:35 AM, wrote: > No komen, mgmnt yg decide > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/gro

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik mohdfenris
No komen, mgmnt yg decide Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -Original Message- From: Harisfazillah Jamel Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:34:00 To: Subject: Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python Why not PERL? Its among the oldest and widely used script language in Unix and Linux environment

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
Why not PERL? Its among the oldest and widely used script language in Unix and Linux environment. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > hola guys, > php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting > php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how > the bat

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik CL Chow
Directly to php no, but i did contribute in some framework development ;) Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:01 PM, nuhaa wrote: > thanks alot for feedb

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik nuhaa
thanks alot for feedback - keep it coming please forgot to note previously - *contributions will be properly credited in the report :)* i myself have always been a php developer - i;ve seen python here and there and yea i like that it's readable and can do more than just web app has anyone contr

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-13 Terurut Topik Hasan Abu Bakar
I believe you are not looking for general benchmark? Aren't you? because there are tonnes of benchmark or research already done by bloggers http://www.google.com.my/search?q=php+vs+python+benchmark btw, as my personal preference and research - speed python saves a lot time to write codes than php

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
my team does php. because that's what the majority of our target market uses and wants. second to that and rising fast is javascript. but as sweemeng points out, python is an attractive language and perhaps an easier option compared to java for us to go into web, desktop and mobile platforms.

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik Adzmely Mansor
update version of my previous link: http://wiki.w4py.org/python-vs-php.html On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Adzmely Mansor wrote: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > >> hola guys, >> >> php vs python? yeapp this going to be interest

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik Adzmely Mansor
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, nuhaa wrote: > hola guys, > > php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting > > php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how > the battle goes muahahahahaha > > OSCC is doing a benchmark

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik Azril Nazli Alias
My primary language is always PHP ..and a year ago I've started do some coding in Ruby I've done PHP for : - portals - processing incoming SMS via php cli - using framework Python..in other way..I use it for Symbian S60 application..I like the language...but too litle time to invest My language

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik CL Chow
As a fulltime php developer and a python hobbyist, i prefer python, as swee meng mentioned, python is not just for web development, and for me, i like python because i can plug anything to my python project... and transforming/converting into whether to websites or tools php is slow without good c

Re: [osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik sweemeng ng
It is a long time since I actually use php, i would leave my comment on php as minimal as possible. Python code(in my personal opinion) is more readable that PHP, which is important because you need that maintain your code Python also have a lot of tools that not just for web development, but for

[osdcmy-public] PHP vs Python

2010-04-12 Terurut Topik nuhaa
hola guys, php vs python? yeapp this going to be interesting php and python hardcores pls put in ur input - we're interested to see how the battle goes muahahahahaha OSCC is doing a benchmark on those 2 .. things we're looking at: - scalability - namespace - speed - syntax - .. put ur input here