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Posted by Roedy Green on 11/18/07 20:56
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:22:25 GMT, "Sanders Kaufman"
<bucky@kaufman.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :
>And yet - PHP is *constantly* used for large, successful projects - while
>Java sites are pretty much limited to pretty pinball games and such.
The company I do most of my consulting for makes the bulk of its
living rewriting apps in Java that have become too large for PHP, such
that every bug fixed seems to create two more.
With every tool, even assembler, a skilled programmer can have the
discipline to write arbitrarily large projects, but given that your
average programmer has average skill, it is best to use a language
for large projects designed for large projects, e.g. that enforce a
strong degree of order -- e.g. strong typing, object oriented,
information hiding, large standard libraries, enforced documenation,
rigid formatting and naming conventions...
One of my friends committed suicide after using Visual Basic for a
project. It was a perfect fit at first, and he dazzled everyone with
the progress but as the project grew larger it became an unbearable
embarrassment crawling with bug after bug. Nothing could be changed
without introducing ever more bugs.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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