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- Qbertino, on 01/10/2008, -1/+0The article is right on.
The truth is, the people that really are programming and solving problems rarely rant about a PL without having tried it. PHP is an extremely n00by-friendly programming language - also because of it's wide availability - and thus lots of code in PHP is quite wacky actually. This falls back on to the PL itself. Flash/ActionScript has similar problems (aside from having a strong proprietary touch to it).
In the end PHP, with its neighborhood to markup, is the web-eras basic. With way more successful and impacting open-source web applications than any other solution - Python included.
There are a lot of factors that make a language successful, and PHP meets very many of those. Just because people rant about it doesn't mean it really is bad. Nobody I know would say that programming in C is really fun and modern and hip. And many people rant about it. Yet look how many mission critical work still is done with it - because the untested alternatives aren't any better.
On the server-side I've been mostly doing PHP for last 3 years now and am now going totally OOP with the CakePHP Framework and a large international project. It works, is extremely neat and quick to develop with. So be it that PHP has a few bizarrely named core functions and arrow->syntax. So ******* what? My friend who has a business as well and is a Sun partner and Java fan boy just moved his web project from Java to PHP so they could finish it faster.
"Java Fan boy speeds up project by switching to PHP" - enough said.
People rant a lot, but reality is all ways a tad different. PHP has critical mass and is growing with many industries, and for good reasons too.
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