On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 21:58, Tom Metro wrote: > I'd like to propose two possible meeting ideas, which I'll post > separately so their merits can be hashed out in separate threads. > > > Back in December Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Squirrelmail's a nice web-based mail access system. > > Yeah, it's PHP, but it works... > > This reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. Why > did PHP become as successful and popular as it is, even though it mostly > offers a subset of what Perl can do. (I'm aware of some of the > historical reasons for PHP being created. What's less clear is why a > Perl equivalent didn't address the need.)
I posted a meditation on Perl Monks recently wondering about the basic question: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=418577 I had a phone screening yesterday, where again the interviewer was asking for more details about the skills listed on my resume and some past projects. When I mentioned that I have been working almost entirely in mod_perl in recent years for web development he sounded quite disappointed. He made it clear that the previous developers had already made great progress in PHP and they had no reason or desire (understandable to a point) to change technologies since what they had so far worked well. I certainly wouldn't mind this as a discussion topic for part of the meeting. I'd also be particularly interested in hearing from people who are working with PHP and other languages. What are the pro's and cons'? I've had to debug/customize some PHP code and while it seemed a useful enough solution I certainly wasn't sufficiently impressed to go out and by a book or start programming in it. I am particularly interested in web applications far more than just web pages and simple form processing. -- Sean Patrick Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired of spyware? Whish there was a better, more secure way to browse the internet? There is, Firefox! And it's free! http://www.getfirefox.com
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