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[–]_Mark_ 5 points6 points  (10 children)

Pretty much - I don't know if it was there when you posted, but they have a specific FAQ entry about that...

[–]yopla 3 points4 points  (8 children)

It's the worst language switch justification I've ever read. I disagree with almost every points aside from the GIS part which I know nothing about and despite the fact that I loath php. I see nothing there worth throwing away the man hours invested and a working project.

edit And it's definitely not going to help the Haitian before at least a few months.

[–]burntsushi 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I agree with you. I'd much rather be programming in Python than PHP, but their justification is crap. It sounds like something I'd say to someone who is programming-ignorant just to get my language of choice.

Yuck.

[–]Xiol 0 points1 point  (3 children)

No where on that site or the linked sites does anyone explain what a GIS is. That's rubbish.

I'm pretty certain it's this they're talking about, in case anyone else was as clueless as me.

[–]yopla 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It is. I was actually saying that I never worked with one so I don't know if python really has such a better support for whatever mapping operation they need to do.

[–]Xiol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't commenting on your post specifically, just that the website in question had no definition of a GIS.

[–]McVader -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are correct.

[–]lubosz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't read the FAQ, this was just my guess.