Python and Flaming Thunder

[Dave Parker]

> Just to support this statement: PHP runs an order of magnitude slower than
> python. Yet a great deal (if not the majority) of dynamic sites out there
> run under PHP. All of these are unhappy customers?

The websites owners might not be unhappy, but lots of customers
complain about slow websites, so if the market is competitive then
eventually the PHP fad will die out.

For example, Slashdot recently interviewed a successful website in a
competitive market -- online newspapers -- and found that to enhance
customer happiness the New York Times uses hand-coded HTML.

"He was asked how the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished
no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it. His answer
begins: 'It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite,
TextPad or TextMate, to "hand code" everything, rather than to use a
wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program,
like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.'"
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/009245&from=rss

"Faster" wins in a competitive market, so if a programming language
can't deliver "faster", it is a fad that will die out.


On May 13, 10:40 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> > This shows how much you don't know about customers, and their needs. A
> > customer gives a s**t about 5-10 times faster sites. They care if it is
> > *fast enough*, but beyond that they don't bother. But what *always*
> > bothers them is development time & flexibility. Because that directly
> > affects the price they pay.
>
> Just to support this statement: PHP runs an order of magnitude slower than
> python. Yet a great deal (if not the majority) of dynamic sites out there
> run under PHP. All of these are unhappy customers?
>
> Diez