Posted by Carl on 05/18/07 19:31

"rickycornell@gmail.com" <rickycornell@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Ricky,

Just out of curiosity, why would you consider PHP better than Java for
"enterprise/mission-critical" deployments?

Carl.

> 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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