More comparative language remarks (was: Python as a web server?)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <94jngf018sb at news1.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
			.
		[wonderful, lucid,
		apposite wisdom--para-
		graph after paragraph
		of it]
			.
			.
>PHP would severely limit your choices, I think (no client-side, and
>I don't know how it could interface a Berkely DBM, or easily build
>server-side images on the fly, etc, etc).  Python seems the ideal
PHP has all these facilities, in fact; the DBM interface
<URL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dbm.php >, in par-
ticular, is quite good.

Alex is entirely on-target in advising that Python's far
more convenient for client-side work, and considerably 
better suited to the level of complexity that image gener-
ation might eventually encompass.

Oh!  And if Alex comprehends with "client-side" specifi-
cally GUI work--well, that's an area where PHP simply has
no answer (with one exception not germane for this discus-
sion), while Python is the king of GUI bindings.
			.
			.
			.
-- 

Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
Business:  http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal:  http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html