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Re:Drupal Sucks by mjgoins on Sunday October 04, 2009 @12:36PM (#860261)
I think drupal is cleverly and elegantly designed, given two assumptions:

1. We can only use the LAMP stack. (perhaps with other operating sytems instead of GNU/Linux, but you get the idea).

2. We can't use php's object and class system, we have to create our own using arrays.

Given those, you'd be hard pressed to build a better CMS.

The problem is that I don't see any reason to start with those two assumptions, particularly given advances in web development in the past 5 years.

Re:Drupal Sucks by mcantelon on Sunday October 04, 2009 @02:13PM (#860409)
>1. We can only use the LAMP stack. (perhaps with other operating sytems instead of GNU/Linux, but you get the idea).

You can use nginx (and lighty as well, I believe). You can use Postgres (and Drupal 7's ORM abstracts the data model, opening up the possibility of nosql). The only thing you're really stuck with is PHP.

Re:Drupal Sucks by polynomial on Sunday October 04, 2009 @02:20PM (#860422)
> The only thing you're really stuck with is PHP.

Yeah, we really need to work on that. ;-)