Posted by Data Goob on 05/27/05 05:03

dterrors@hotmail.com wrote:
> Why are you talking about C? Is anyone arguing that C is better for
> web dev than PHP? Did you write this response to the wrong thread by
> accident or something?
>
Your assumptions are written around the mindset of someone who writes
compiled languages, and does not get PHP, as if it needs corrective
surgery to be "complete" like a compiled language like C or C++, or
whatever. If you want to "jump ship" it suggests that you are trying
to put PHP into a compiled language mindset where it doesn't really
fit. Web application programming is about the moment, not about the
story. Compiled languages are all about the story not the moment.

Stay with it for a spell, and write a complete web application with
PHP, and you will understand. You make the implied assumption that
somehow PHP is weak because it's weakly typed--in the classic sense,
but let's not assume that weakly-typed makes the language weak, to the
contrary it is a strongly string-typed language ideally suited for the
web.

The next step will be a PHP script that runs in the browser instead
of just server-side as an alternative to Javascript--now THAT would
be really fantastic--simply because of the messiness of Javascript.

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