Posted by Usenet on 08/14/07 16:10

Hi Erwin,

In article <46c19cc5$0$233$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Erwin Moller wrote:
> Firstly, I agree that Java would be a better choice to build GUI, but I
> like PHP a lot more these days.

I'm not hugely au fait with things, but PHP+browser isn't a bad way of
working on the desktop, an Apache web server is free and easy to install.
You can use PHP from the command line, but that's not particularly nice.

I don't think PHP is the best though, as it is (or just seems) mostly tuned
to the web. A viable, and (apparently) not too difficult, alternative is
Python, which runs web apps as well as being available to be a (cross
platform) desktop solution. The message colume in comp.lang.python suggests
to me it's a happening language. Dabo is a framework for Python...

Regards
Mark

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