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[nycphp-talk] PHP and Instant Messenger -- was: time tracking apps...

Bill Lovett bill at ilovett.com
Wed Oct 15 12:38:11 EDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:43AM -0400, jon baer wrote:
> > I'm in the early stages of a project just like that. It's going to be a
> > Jabber bot written in Python that will  collect timesheet information
> 
> Im just wondering (I don't know Python that well) but is there a reason on
> why the bot itself could not be done in PHP as well?  I noticed a few people
> do write tools which require both Python + PHP but could never figure out
> why ... is it just what u are comfortable with or is there another reason?


I'm more comfortable with PHP, but Python seemed a better option in this
case because I had already done some Jabber-related experimentation
with it. Now that I think about it, there's really no reason why CLI
wouldn't be an option.  It's mostly laziness on my part-- I never got
rolling completely with CLI.  



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