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Posted by macca on 10/12/07 19:51
I know this is a php newsgroup so obviously most people here like
using php, but I was just wondering what people's opinnions were on
the most diverse/useful and friendly 'scripting' language was.
I like php and have made my choice to use it as my main language, only
the more I look into other languages, the more i see things that I
like in them that I dont necesarrily see in PHP.
For example, the more I use php I realize that php has a serious issue
(in my opinnion anyway) when it comes to nomenclature for it's inbuilt
functions. There seems to be a quite noticable lack of consistency
with function families (especially for case/case-insensitive
versioning).
Theres also a video on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-
WXiqrzAf8) by Jacob Kaplan-Moss senior developer of Django that said
he favoured Python over PHP because it was easier to maintain than
large PHP applications.
Ive done a little reading on python myself and it seems packed full of
goodies and quite powerful and quite easy to pick up. Shame about the
fear of curly braces though.
I've also done a bit of python GUI programming and it seems easier to
me than GUI programming with PHP using PHP-GTK for exampe.
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Anyway, that said, I cant see a problem with using them all for what
they are best at. But you guys must have your own opinnions and I
wouldnt mind hearing them...
Regards,
Paul.
p.s.
Please don't let this post become another stupid argument/slagging
match/name calling thing. Thanks.
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