[Gllug] OSS CMSs

[Tethys]

Doug Winter writes:

>There are a few out there in PHP and Perl that might be worth a look,
>but I can't stand either of those languages, and I don't believe either
>is suitable for anything serious, because of serious design flaws in the
>languages.

Wow! And I thought *I* was scathing at times :-) FWIW, I'd agree
entirely about Perl. The point of no return was passed many years ago.
PHP is teetering on the edge, and still has a shot at redpemption.
It's a nice language, but seems to suffer from a lack of design, and
has a lot of things bolted on without much thought going into them.
With a bit of careful planning, it could be sanitised before it's too
late.

I tend to agree with your choice of Python. It has a lot going
for it IMHO, and I'm seriously considering writing my next couple
of projects in it. My experiences with Tcl have convinced me that
scripting languages are the future for general purpose programming,
only dropping down to lower level languages where heavy lifting is
required. Speed of development *far* outweighs any other factors
for all but a few specialist tasks, and scripting languages are
untouchable there...

Tet
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