Bizarre Name Resolution/Routing Problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004, David A. Bandel wrote:
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>Regurgitating the prose of Kurt Wall Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> on
>Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:19:28 -0500:
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>|On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:18:26PM -0800, Net Llama! took 40 lines to
>|write:> On 12/07/2004 06:24 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
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>|> >RHES-3. We actually backed off Apache 2.whatever because it wasn't
>|playing> >well with the (curse-the-day-I-heard-the-name) ColdFusion
>|server that> >runs (most of) the Web site.
>|> 
>|> ugh.  ColdFusion is such a PoS.  Take the worst aspects of PHP & ASP
>|and > you get ColdFusion.
>
>Golly, I thought this POS died a miserable death a long time ago (and
>only worked in IIS anyway).
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>|Precisely. I'm getting ready to interview some Web developers whose
>|task it will be to redo the Web site in PHP. PHP, at least, I can read
>|and fix on my own. ColdFusion code is gawdawfully bletcherous.
>
>Well, if you don't mind that every time PHP is upgraded (hang on, here
>comes version 5) everything stops working and has to be rewritten.  If
>you don't want that headache, use Perl.  Perl has so many modules, even
>I can program in it (because it doesn't take any real programming, just
>give the module what it wants and accept its output).

My biggest objection to php is that it encourages really ugly
code, mixing HTML formatting with code.  I much prefer systems
that separate the web page design from the code.

I never thought I would hear myself saying this, but I would
suggest looking seriously at python, Zope, and Plone.  My python
code would probably disgust a python  purist as I embed lots of
comments with ``#{'' and ``#}'' around blocks so the ``%'' braces
matching of vi(m) works.

Bill
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