Posted by Roedy Green on 09/29/05 23:37

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:36:45 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote
or quoted :

>Plus points for PHP:
>
>* Open source software;
>* Ubiquitous - bundled with Apache for ages;
>* Dynamic language;
>* Language has built in maps;

I agree with the hack assessment. PHP really offends aesthetically. On
the other paw it is a practical language. Unlike Java, you can in a
very few keystrokes you get ordinary tasks done, like an SQL query or
a HashMap.

Java has rather stubbornly resisted syntactic sugar measures to make
it friendly to the application programmer. Everything is geared for
those who write libraries.

The rise of PHP and C# is the result.
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