Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

[Michael Hall <admin@openlearningcommunity.org>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Andrew Reid wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:10:47AM +0930, Michael Hall wrote:
> 
> > I know we all find what we're familiar with easiest, but Zope is really a
> > much more complicated thing to set up and maintain than a PHP application,
> > for no real gain. Using phpWeblog, a fully functioning newslog/portal
> > type site can be up and running in half an hour. And even if that is
> > debateable, far more people can use PHP and maintain PHP code than
> > Zope/Python.
> 
> Well, no, that's not really the case. PHP gets quite ugly after a
> while. Zope benefits from Python's object-oriented nature, making it a 
> lot easier to work with.
> 
> If you want to make a serious web application, I'd say that
> out-of-the-box solutions aren't going to cut it, and that unless you
> think -really- hard about it before you code, PHP isn't the right
> language.

Develop a custom application designed by experts before we
even start? Sounds like a good way to ensure that this new energy gets
absolutely nowhere.

> 
> I've got nothing against PHP, just against people that think they're
> experts and go about writing crappy applications. That's something
> that can happen with a Zope application too, it's just a bit harder.
> 
>    - andrew
> 
> 

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