| Paul on Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:20:03 -0400 |
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Before anyone asks, no, I'm not on drugs. The second part of what you wrote is what I'm thinking. As a person who plays with computer technology, sometimes I try to find an excuse to use new or fun tools. Why not? If the results are positive why does it matter what the original motivation was? Why does one person drive an SUV only on the highway while another person drives a sedan to a camp site? (I left out a Windows/Linux example.) Why do we have to make everything logical when we could be having some fun with it? If the end result is a great Web site, so much the better. I doubt that playing with something like PHP would result in a bad Web site. Client-side scripting could take care of that in short order. 8^)
Well, it's for the same reason that I don't apt-get install every possible network daemon immediately after I install a new machine; it's not *necessary*. If it *is* necessary, *then* I do it. As Gabe said, if the job requires (or strongly suggests, for some value of "strongly") a particular tool, then by all means, use that tool. It's silly to use a tool just for the sake of using that tool. (Unless the objective is to use that tool; an example would be "I'm going to add some PHP to the mix on my site so I can learn how to use PHP." But even there, the real objective isn't to *use* the tool; in this case, the reason would be to *learn* the tool.)
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