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Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/12/07 20:33
..oO(macca)
>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).
That's a known issue. But keep in mind that PHP wasn't designed on a
drawing table. It's a grown language, with all the benefits and
drawbacks.
>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.
This depends more on the code than on the used language.
>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.
Every language has its goodies and syntactical sugar, but every language
has its dark sides as well. Use whatever you prefer.
>Anyway, that said, I cant see a problem with using them all for what
>they are best at.
Exactly.
>But you guys must have your own opinnions and I
>wouldnt mind hearing them...
My opinion? I don't like Python, but have to use it for scripting in
Paint Shop Pro, because there's no other choice. But for my own projects
I still prefer PHP for various reasons, even if I'm looking at other
architectures like Java/Tomcat or something like that.
Micha
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