Be warned that if you use python, expect it to be slow. Many basic associative array operations are more than 10x slower than C++'s comparative operations leading to long page execution time if you are dealing with alot of data. I have written a simple web framework in Python and XML, and it's a nice language, but it is slow in places. I should mention that string manipulation in python is faster than the C++ string class though. I can't stand PHP anymore because they just keep changing it underneath me, and I can't do anything about it. I'm one frustated X-PHPer. Moving all to mod_python and taking on the chin with the performance hit. Alex Turner netEconomist On 4/22/05, Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > I like Python, but it's felt half-finished for quite some time now. So, I > > use PHP and / or Java (just learning it really) for most stuff. > > > > PHP, for all it's warts and blemishes, has been a stable language (not > > the definition, the VM / implementation) with usable connect libs for > > quite some time. > > > > Ruby on Rails has promise, but also feels like it's really just getting > > started. > > I don't make my living writing software so I'm neither a language bigot nor > a language collector. If it works, it's good enough. :-) > > Thanks, > > Rich > > -- > Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
