Python as replacement for PHP?

[Bob Ippolito]

On 2004-02-28 07:25:46 -0500, claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) said:

> In article <2004022801225916807%bob at redivicom>,
> Bob Ippolito  <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>> On 2004-02-27 23:00:44 -0500, claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) said:
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> 		[arguments against
> 		positions *I* certainly
> 		don't take]
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>> All that said, PHP is a good language for a beginner.  Lots of books 
>> are available that approach the subject from just about any angle, it 
>> is trivial to setup (you don't have to, you find some $5/mo provider to 
>> do it for you, or you buy OS X,), and is so underfeatured that you 
>> couldn't possibly be frightened by its syntax if it is one of the first 
>> few languages you've seen.  That doesn't mean it's a good language to
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> "OS X"?  Panther, or Mac OS X 10.3, does build in an Apache--but
> as near as I can tell, it's *not* one which includes PHP.  PHP
> has to be installed explicitly.  Am I missing something?
> 
> I'm not ratifying the characterization of PHP as "underfeatured".

By "installed explicitly", do you mean "turned on in httpd.conf"?  You 
may be right that pre-10.3 didn't include /usr/bin/php (I am not sure), 
but mod_php has been standard (just not enabled by default) since at 
least 10.1.

When I say grossly underfeatured, I mean the *language* not the *library*.

-bob