Posted by Kenneth Downs on 08/24/05 15:41

Berislav Lopac wrote:

> Ramon wrote:
>> How are 2 users able to share a run-time object in memory?
>
> A very brief answer: They are not, and they not need to be. As you rightly
> said, HTTP is stateless, and PHP follows this concept.
>
> Also keep one more thing in mind: PHP is some kind of a pushmi-pullyu
> monster: on one site it's a Web development framework, but at the same
> time it is also its own scripting language. So you can't do most things
> you can do with common purpose languages, as PHP is *not* a common purpose
> language.
>
> Berislav

But it plays one on TV.

But seriously, what does PHP lack to make it common purpose? It can
read/write streams, talk to databases, recurse loops, perform various list
operations, and it runs from the command line, what is missing?

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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

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