I believe you're talking about me when I recommended Drupal. I have no idea what language Drupal is written in. If you say it's written in PHP, I'll believe you. I recommend it because I have used it and it works. That's my measure of success.
As for Perlmonks allowing people to say things, we have a general policy of letting people speak their minds. And, the best tool for the job isn't always Perl. Very often, it's PHP, or Ruby, or C++, or Scheme, or something that isn't on a computer at all. You'll find that we are pretty eclectic in what we recommend when it comes to a general question. This is an advocacy site, not a religious one.
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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That's darned near Hippocratic. Peace.
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Man you're ridiculous. BTW I've just browsed quickly thru WebAPP code and frankly, it's ugly. No strictures, no warnings, lots of HTML manipulations through regexps, it looks like an old Perl 4 stuff. I'd rather use a well maintained PHP CMS than a bad Perl one. However I'll take any time a slightly inferior Perl one as long as it does what I need. | [reply] |
Take whatever you like, as ugly as WebAPP code may look (and yes, several portions of this code are VERY ugly!), it does things, better and MUCH faster and safer then any of the above mentioned PHP CMS solutions.
If you thought that WebAPP has offered itself as a candidate to Miss Universe contest you missed the entire point.
"html manipulations" via regexps? "lots of"? I haven't got a clue what you mean to, we have UBB modules which can be turn on and off directly from the control panel. We also have cache and system restore routines. Does any of the above PHP CMS have these? I doubt it... they are in the contest of Miss Universe.
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What the hack? Who is promoting PHP on PerlMonks???!!! Man, this one is news for me! Are you sure? Veterans? | [reply] |