Posted by Justin Koivisto on 05/05/06 00:15

an@other.net wrote:
> In article <tYWdnXd2pM1CssfZnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d@onvoy.com>, justin@koivi.com
> says...
>> Yahoo! has a handful of big-name PHP developers on staff - including
>> Rasmus Lerdorf and Andrei Zmievski
>>
>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3587606
>> http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html
>
> PHP is a high level scripting language no different from any other. You
> could set up MS basic to do the same job.
>
> Personally I'd say its backward method of defining global variable scope
> on its own causes enough extra typing to make me want to look elsewhere.
>
> PHP provides no special fuctions no special security no special features
> that dont exist in any other scripting language ever invented.
>
> It's an ok scripting language and thats about it.
>
> If you are writing serious "applications" it shouldn't even be
> considered.

That's fine... but it had absolutely nothing to do with my post.

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