Hi Marc Silver!
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:59:02 +0200; Marc Silver wrote about 'Re: Need an environment for dynamic web content for freebsd.org':
> While I agree that PHP isn't perfect, it is still possible to write secure,
> fast and scalable code with it.
Yes, but it will cost you a lot more and even then you will not be secure due
to all those constantly discovered in each new version flaws in the PHP
interpreter itself.
> It's just as easy for a bad programmer to
> write bad perl code as it is for them to write bad PHP code.
Yes, but there more bad PHP programmers than Perl programmers :)
> The one thing I don't like about Perl is that there is too much of a
> reliance on third party modules for just about everything.
This is normal way for every programming language. Do you complain C or Java
that you have so many third-party libraries instead of all being inside libc,
eh?
> At least PHP has
> (most) of what you need built in. Bottom line is that there are pros and
> cons to just about every language out there.
Yes, but there are statistics.
> That said, I'm quite fond of python/pylons/django so I don't mind what
> happens, but it's not really fair to write off PHP just because so many
> developers who use it are rubbish.
This is not the only reason, of course - I've given a link to PHP disadvantages
summary in message to Murray.
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