Does anyone use WebObjects for developing web applications? Can someone compare it Python/Ruby for development?
Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
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Re: Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
#102My personal opinion is that a project can be language agnostic. You can build in whatever you want. It doesn't matter if you build your app in php, ruby, python, asp or whatever, if you're a good coder you will produce good secure code, if you suck, so will your code. So build in whatever you're most comfortable with and don't pick a language because of a superficial reason.
I agree with this to a point. You should produce code in whatever language you are most proficient/comfortable with, pending that language is suitable for the domain in which you are producing code in. I wouldn't want to try to produce a web application in Assembly.NET, nor would I want to develop a low level component in Ruby. Depending on the domain, language becomes a bigger issue, which may result in you not having the ability to be language agnostic. But, in the overall sense, I do agree with what you're saying.
Re: Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
#103Oracle just put a price on InnoDB. So unless you got $2000 a year - NO. http://www.mysql.com/products/ Postgresql is your next choice.
Not true. Nothing has changed, MySQL is still under a GPL/commercial dual license. If you're not embedding, then of course InnoDB is free.
Re: Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
#104Lately these questions and discussions are everywhere and most times I think people are missing the point: it's all about code you want to write. We created all those high level languages to make code easy to read, to make them people understand. I mean you could probably write your website in Assembla but the language won't help you to write down what you really want. As a developer you are trying to develop somethi…
not to be judgemental but it seems like you are new to programming and have a bias towards the new languages because its mainly all you have used.
PHP is based mainly off C-syntax and although the $ sign for variables is something new (and not an issue to me), the "dot" symbol is extremely familiar for those that have programmed in C/C++. It makes sense that a string would use "dot" (think of ...) for concatenation and an integer or numeric value would use "plus"+.
Your points are valid but I think the syntax behind PHP is great, maybe it could be better at OOP when calling to functions (as one person mentioned) but I am very happy with it.