Getting Ready for Google App Engine
June 8th, 2008
Funkatron.com has a really good article on a Google App Engine from a PHP developer’s perspective. Very well written and love the sense of humor. I think the best line in the article is
Otherwise, Python is a good fit for me philosophy-wise, because it’s totally the anti-Perl, lacking goofy magic characters and 1000 ways of doing the same thing. I can’t stand languages where “
~^s” means “find all numbers that start with the letter ‘s’, add them, multiply them by 75, and then post the result to Twitter”. I’m not freakin’ R2D2 here.
I personaly haven’t tried out Google App Engine but will here in the near future. I have to freshen up Python skills. I definatly belive in what funkatron says about learning more than one coding language.
Plus, getting hung up on one language is a sure way to be a boring dude who gets caught up in lame religious language wars.