php vs python

[NC]

On May 25, 11:46 am, Ivan Illarionov <ivan.illario... at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> If the OP wants to learn the guts of the blog or to implement
> the blog from scratch, Python/Django would be a better choice
> than PHP. The reason is that he can reuse and customize existing
> high quality components for all these auth/auth, admin, comments,
> etc, etc, etc.

You are comparing apples to oranges...  There are application
frameworks
for PHP as well (CakePHP and Symfony come to mind).  CakePHP, if
memory
serves, actually has a development of a blog described in its
tutorial...

> Another reason is that Python and Django encourage very clean design
> while PHP is too often ends up in "spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti
> PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML".

It's absolutely the same thing with PHP frameworks...

> 2 man/year in PHP == 2 man/week in Python/Django.

This, I daresay, is an exaggeration...  Let's take your own example:

> And there are Python/Django blog applications that already do almost
> everything (and maybe more) that WordPress does.http://byteflow.su/
> is one of them (IMHO the most promising).

A quick look at the revision log:

http://byteflow.su/log/

reveals that the initial commit of 60 or so files has been done on
08/14/07
(10 months ago), a second developer came on board 12/01/07 (seven+
months ago),
a third one, on 01/04/08 (six+ months ago), a fourth one, on 01/16/08
(also
six+ months ago).  There are at least nine discernible contributors
overall.
Say what you will, but it still looks an awful lot like like two man-
years,
Django or no Django...

Cheers,
NC