<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had to get into Python while working for DolphinSearch and found it fairly straight forward language. The extent of my PHP knowledge is just what I've learned via trial and error in modifying my PHP sites.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would check out a Python based CMS.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jason Franklin</DIV><DIV>Christian/Husband/Father/Missionary</DIV><DIV>Westwood Bible Fellowship</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:pastor.jason@westwoodbf.com">pastor.jason@westwoodbf.com</A></DIV><DIV>web: <A href="http://www.westwoodbf.com">www.westwoodbf.com</A></DIV><DIV>blog: <A href="http://www.westwoodbf.com/tboc">www.westwoodbf.com/tboc</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 5, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Micah Yoder wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've often wondered about this myself, with news almost weekly of a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">vulnerability found in PHP. I know there are projects using Perl (Tim's</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SAFARI) and plenty using CGI, and a couple using Java. Any others?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">More than PHP security vulnerabilities.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>PHP is horribly inefficient.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It has to parse all the code for every HTTP request.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Developing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">complex object models in PHP makes for *ugly* code.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sometimes I wish I could start a CMS project for Python/Postgres, but</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">there are far too many other things I'd like to do ... really need to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">make up my mind and stick to one.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PHP is fine for small sites with simple logic.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Using it for more than</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that is, IMHO, insane.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Christiansource@ofb.biz">Christiansource@ofb.biz</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://cs.uninetsolutions.com">http://cs.uninetsolutions.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>