Posted by Chung Leong on 11/02/06 19:32

Erwin Moller wrote:
>
> I just had a talk/meeting with a representative of my provider(ISP) about
> our machine, and after that we went to get a beer in the sun.
> He told me that his company was focussing more and more on Python because
> many (some?) organisations perceive it as a more serious language than PHP.
> That is what he claimed.

How people perceive you, of course, has much to do with the image that
you try to project. As it's election season here in the US I will use
politics as an analogy. A politician has to stand for something. If you
change your platform every other day in response to criticism, then
you'll be seen as a lightweight. The public doesn't trust someone who
blows with the wind.

That's the problem with PHP. The developers don't seem to know what
makes the language successful. Development is so focused on appeasing
detractors that they're willing to sacrifice backward compatibility. If
it's not this feature being deprecated then it's that feature being
changed/removed. It's as though winning the PHP vs. Python or PHP vs.
Java or whatever debate is more important than being useful.

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