I have a nice little pet project to work on … but I’m facing a bit of a dilemma right now. The project is a web-based tool to analyse information, and my debate is … which of the these 2x awesome tools should I use?

Django (which runs on the Python language) is what I’m currently experimenting with. And the one I’m thinking of using is CakePHP (which runs on the PHP language). Both Python and PHP are what I’d consider, “Scripting” high-level languages. Python is a great “glue” language. I feel Python has more promise than Perl for multi-developer situations, in that Python encourages good programming style, while Perl gives you enough rope to do the job, with left over to hang yourself, your tester, maintainer, and documenter with. PHP suffers a bit of the “spaghetti” criticism too. Continue reading →