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Drupal's coded in Erlang, right?

In all seriousness, your snarky criticism of PHP is unfair. Like Django does for Python, there are plenty of great PHP frameworks that provide design templates, ORM, and ready-made admin.

If you read my comment down below, I already address most of this. I know they exist. I just haven't used them, and thus wouldn't be that proficient. And thus to use them for this project would've been silly, as I'm not skilled at them. Don't you agree?

That and I already had a server set up that could take a lot of traffic, whereas our PHP servers? Not so much. So, for me, Django was the right decision. PHP has been the right decision for other projects, though. Just not this one.

No, that is false. And if you weren't able to figure out Drupal, you should've at least tried Rails. It sounds like it would do everything that you describe, but more efficiently.

Danno12, there's a fairly sizable Django community in media because the software was developed by a newspaper's tech staff (the Lawrence Journal-World). There's some good Rails development happening too, with the NY Time, ProPublica and others.

Actually, I've decided that ProPublica's approach is pretty weak by comparison. There are other shops doing it much better.

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