PHP versus Java blogging
Russell Beattie blogged on “Rampaging Computer Science” today. As a part of his post, he mentioned my use of WordPress on BillDay.com.
I did my best to respond in the comments to his blog, in which I wrote:
Though I love Java and have been working with it professionally for 8+ years now, I try not to be too overtly religious when it comes to languages and tools. Freeman Dyson is quoted as saying “A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible” and that’s pretty much my philosophy, too.
I try to use an appropriate tool for the job at hand, whether it’s Java, PHP, Perl, C, Fortran, whatever. (OK, so it’s thankfully been a loooong time for me since Fortran was an “appropriate tool for the job at hand”, but back in my aerospace and geophysics days…
There are certainly great blogging packages for Java (and Perl, and Python, etc.). Given my needs, WordPress was an appropriate tool.
What do you think? Am I committing a sacrilege by using WP instead of SnipSnap, Roller, or some other Java based blogging package? Click on Comments to share your thoughts.
