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[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> I've never liked PHP, primarily because I don't like mixing the html
>> presentation code with processing, and I find it very hard to read.
>>
>> I prefer Zope page templates and python or perl using modules like
>> HTML::Template or Mason which allow one to separate out the HTML and
>> processing.
>
>There are many many PHP frameworks that separate logic from layout -
>that's pretty much what Zope or Mason are.
>
>Having worked with C, Perl, ASP, PHP and Java I have now moved on to Ruby
>on Rails which offers OOP, rapid development, MVC, built-in testing and HTML
>frameworks and other goodies.

Linux Journal has had a series of articles on Ruby on Rails, the most
recent one comparing it with Zope and Plone.

We're doing most of our web stuff with Plone now, largely because
it's easy for people to create static pages without having to
know much, if any, html.

Bill
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