[Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:23:28AM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote:

> When you write,
> >Phase 3:        Develop Php front-end for Archives/Admin utils

> That makes me curious.  I know Tcl (and C, LISP, etc.) but not Python or 
> PHP.  One reason for undertaking this project was to give me something 
> "real" to focus on while learning Python.  My understanding was that Python 
> and PHP are somewhat competing technologies.  Mailman is a Python tool 
> right?  What makes you choose Php for front-end development?

PHP and Python aren't as competing with each other as Python and Tcl are :-)
Seriously, though, I personally detest PHP. I've done a fair lot in it, and
I hate it for a number of reasons, one of the more important ones being
security (or lack thereof.) Python is a much, much easier language to
program in, even for Web/CGI stuff, and if you are going to execute Python
in the back anyway, it's not that much faster.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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