Re: Are we losing momentum?

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, mlw wrote:

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> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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> >>That's a pretty reasonable thought. I work for a shop that sells
> >>Postgres support, and even we install MySQL for the Q&D ticket tracking
> >>system we recommend because we can't justify the cost to port it to
> >>postgres. If the postgres support were there, we would surely be using it.
> >>
> >>How to fix such a situation, I'm not sure. "MySQL Compatability Mode,"
> >>anyone? :-)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The real problem is PHP.  PHP is just the cruftiest language ever invented (trust me, I use it every day).  The PHP people are totally dedicated to MySQL, to the exclusion of all rational thought (eg. When I asked Rasmas at a conference about race conditions in his replicated setup, he replied "it's never going to happen - MySQL's replication is just too fast...).
> >
> >  
> >
> Hey! don't go knocking PHP, it is probably one of the most flexible and 
> easy to use systems around. I have done several fairly large projects 
> with PHP and while it is an "ugly" environment, it performs well enough, 
> has a very usable extension interface, it is quick and easy to even 
> large projects done.

I would say that compared to Perl, TCL, and many other scripting languages 
that PHP is actually a far better and more logically designed language.  
the way it handles arrays and global vars is the way every language 
should.