[thelist] From PHP to...?

[Jay Greenspan]

> Object-oriented.
> 
> 'nuff said.
> 
> If you get out of the [one script] = [one page] mindset, you can make things
> SO much easier on yourself. Kind of like super includes. If you need more
> explanation, Steve, shoot me an email privately (just *cough* thank me in your
> book...   ;-)


Any Python people out there? I've just starting looking at it, but it seems
to combine many of the nicer aspects of Java (quality 00 implementation) and
PHP (it's interpreted, so it's not strictly-typed).

I've got a pretty thik book on Java, but it tends to make me really sleepy.
With Java, I'm finding for the first time since getting into this who Web
thing, that I wish I had a more formal background in computer science. I
find it more challenging than PHP, CF, Perl, JS, and the like.

However, I think at some point the scripting languages stop making sense. If
there's some really, really complex business logic that needs to be written,
why would you write in a language like PHP or CF that is tied to your Web
server. Better to write for an EJB or COM object and access it where you
need to.

At this point, using the work done by Sam Ruby at IBM you can all Java
methods from about every scripting language (PHP, Perl, Python, etc), and
it's pretty nice to use the same Java code in processing a Web page or maybe
through some application written with Swing.

Seems to me (and I could be wrong -- usually am) that before too long most
of us will find a need to learn either Java or one of the MS offerings (C#,
VB). 

-j