On Wednesday 15 December 2004 17:40, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
However, I keep hearing about more and more big beefy web projects and companies using PHP.
I also recently visited a client who had a copy of "Writing Web Applications in RPG" on his desk, but I wouldn't necessarily want to do it. I would not personally ever develop a large web app in PHP, for much the same reason that I wouldn't develop a large client-side app in C. Both are clearly possible, but I firmly believe that much better alternatives exist now.
Without starting a flame war, is there a chance in future the power AND ease of PHP may win out over Zope?
Absolutely zero. As long as Zope is still maintained, it hasn't "lost". I've written a *lot* of my company's application stack in Python. Using Zope was kind of a no-brainer, since I can call the exact same methods from within Zope as from my other clients. There's basically no support for PHP outside of the web environment; although there's a command-line interpreter for it, I've literally never once seen it used.
It seems Zope's steep learning curve is a showstopper for some.
It's steep, true, but also very short. It took me a little while to stop fighting its design (I'd most recently written PHP before I discovered Zope and kept wanting to develop Zope in the same way I'd written PHP), but once I did, the payoff was immediate and enormous. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies