On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you
put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will
be horrible.
:-) I like that comment.
Fortunately most web requests are simple to handle, so PHP and
Perl are quite sufficient. Both PHP and Perl succeeded originally
because they embraced C-ish syntax and common C libraries and
their APIs which made them easy to use casually for programmers
who dealt with unix/C regularly.
Less to memorize. Low threshold for entry.
But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the
customer cares about.
True. Since many users are now used to PHP-based forums and
Wordpress and their UIs/feature set, it becomes more difficult to
push better platforms (with different feature sets).
Almost all full featured forum software packages are written in
PHP. That is kind of scary.
