Posted by rickycornell@gmail.com on 05/18/07 14:20

On May 18, 5:28 am, shotokan99 <soft_devj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> guys,
>
> i read in some forums that php is just for hobbiest, and is not suited
> for some serius and heavy application. for robust and hi performance
> application asp.net or jsp is the way to go. how true is this?
>
> however if talking about robustnes and bulk of data, friendster is
> written on php and doing well. correct me if im wrong with this.
>
> tnx

Ummm.. so like, why would you ask this in comp.lang.php? Were you
unable to predict what language choice a group of programmers would
advise in a usenet group FOR that group of programmers? Like going to
a Java convention and asking, "hey guys, does Java suck?" lol.

PHP has some criticism about namespace support and multiple-
inheritance in its OOP implementation, etc. But the best response I've
heard is that we don't WANT php to be Java. If you want Java, go use
Java. PHP's strength is agility. It can, and has, been used in my
enterprise/mission-critical deployments. In my opinion, it is better
suited for these environments than Java. ASP.NET is great if you want
to suck Microsoft's tit for the lifetime of the project and empty your
wallet.

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