Scripting Matters
Why Scripting Languages Matter
Tim O’Reilly: “Unlike applications from the previous paradigm, web applications are not released in one to three year cycles. They are updated every day, sometimes every hour. Rather than being finished paintings, they are sketches.” [Ranchero]
We’ve been having a huge debate at work lately. Mainly a question of whether to use Java or stick with PHP (and a combination of Python, Oracle and PostgreSQL). I’m not a techie so can only harass the team about what I see being done inside our customers IT departments and read through my weird collection of RSS feeds, but what I do know is it’s coming up three years since we’ve been building sites (that are updated EVERY day) and the process reminds me of art. I don’t have artistic talent in any traditional sense (I think), but I feel like the process we go through, however grounded in science, is a craft similar to art.