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  -- Ben Scherrey

2/10/2004 8:44:31 PM, John Wells <jb at devsea.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:43, cfowler wrote:
>> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:19, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>> > Do it in python. You get an even easier language to use than java, all 
>> > the platform independence (and perhaps more), and can always plug in 
>> > some C/C++ stuff in the backend if performance becomes an issue. I'm 
>> > doing all my web development in python now using mod_python and 
>> > quixote. Database connectivity is great as well which is better than 
>> > I can say for java or C# (although I'll be interested when a good 
>> > implementation of jdo comes out).
>
>Really?  Strange...I think jdbc provides particularly good database
>connectivity.
>
>How's your experience with python and web programming?  I'm sort of
>mapping out our shop's "standard" webdev language...leaning towards PHP
>when 5 makes it out of beta.  Still, I'm a python fan, but have never
>really done much web programming with it. Always seems like there were
>20 different projects going in 20 different directions, and it was very
>hard to determine which would garner more support in the long term and
>become the sort of "standard".  I'm fine with using lesser known
>projects personally, but when making a decision for the enterprise, I'd
>like to be very careful in this regard to choose something with
>longevity.
>
>While I think PHP5 will be a strong contender due to the arrival of a
>rather full set of OO features, if I were a betting man, I'd say there's
>a strong possibility will ultimately end up a Java shop.  I've been very
>impressed by two things from the Java community: a. the quality of
>software being produced by a number of different projects/groups,
>particularly those out of the Jakarta project, and b. the high level of
>community support and participation.
>
>Anyway, interested to hear your comments/experiences.  Thanks!
>
>John
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