[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off

A. Pagaltzis pagaltzis at gmx.de
Fri Nov 17 01:57:59 GMT 2006


* Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> [2006-11-16 16:45]:
> It's a world where PHBs often look at web stats and ask "What
> the hell is this slow" a lot more than they ask "Why isn't the
> system flexible".

If he decides it’s because the framework is slow and makes you
switch, that means two things:

1. He has no idea of programming or benchmarks.

2. He insists on making decisions about things he clearly knows
   nothing about.


No wait, it means three things:

1. He has no idea of programming or benchmarks.

2. He insists on making decisions about things he clearly knows
   nothing about, instead of deferring to the competence of
   people he hired for their competence and trusting their
   judgement. Of course, since he is incompetent in this are, he
   has no way of knowing how competent his underlings are.
   A certain Paul Graham has written at length about this
   problem.

3. You are doomed. Even if you used the best-performing framework
   ever, he will force other boneheaded decisions on you. Float
   your resume.


* Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> [2006-11-16 16:50]:
> And a world where customers don't bitch that your framework is
> inflexibly, but will bitch if it's slow.

No, they will bitch that the *application* is slow. Customers
couldn’t give a flying monkey about how you implement it. And
the framework is almost assuredly not going to be where you’re
wasting all your cycles.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>



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