On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:23:28AM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote:
When you write,
Phase 3: Develop Php front-end for Archives/Admin utils
That makes me curious. I know Tcl (and C, LISP, etc.) but not Python or PHP. One reason for undertaking this project was to give me something "real" to focus on while learning Python. My understanding was that Python and PHP are somewhat competing technologies. Mailman is a Python tool right? What makes you choose Php for front-end development?
PHP and Python aren't as competing with each other as Python and Tcl are :-) Seriously, though, I personally detest PHP. I've done a fair lot in it, and I hate it for a number of reasons, one of the more important ones being security (or lack thereof.) Python is a much, much easier language to program in, even for Web/CGI stuff, and if you are going to execute Python in the back anyway, it's not that much faster.
-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>
Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!