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Posted by Harold Phillips on 03/18/07 01:17
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> I am -mainly- a windows developer and just want to escape from MS
> umbrella, i just do not know
> if php is the right choice. Can i use the language to build network
> apps, or gui apps or DB stuff and the like
> or i should stick to Python for this kind of (generic) developing ?
While you can indeed use PHP along with a GUI toolkit to develop some very
robust cross-platform GUI applications, PHP might not be the best tool for
that. Scripting languages in general tend to be a bit slow. If you're
wanting to do development for both the web and desktop in one language, you
might be better looking at something like Java.
> I recently saw that CodeGear (a Borland spin-off) will release Delphi
> for php and i am very attracted to that.
> VCL, first class debugger, a fully featured IDE.
> I suppose that the combination of a product like that and the
> language, will make me able to build nearly
> anything and not only web stuff, or am i wrong ?
I hadn't head this but that will make the enviroment very nice to develop
in. PHP is definitely worth looking at. Play with it and see how far you can
go with it. You might be surprised.
Cheers,
Anthony Papillion
www.babblemail.net
Blog:
www.adcl.biz/papillion
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