"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> PHP is wildly popular, but for anyone actually familiar with a variety of >> languages, the quality is undeniably poor, so again, we have to be >> careful with assuming connections between popularity and quality. > > On the other hand, PHP may have a quality that other languages utterly > lack and fail to recognize. The book "The Innovator's Dilemma" explains > many examples of this. >
Yea, may be so in a lot of cases, but with PHP, I really can't even fathom that. > > There's the old saw in making a product that the last 10% takes 90% of the > time and money. If you're doing something for free, you tend to not bother > with that. If you're doing it for pay, you spend the time and money to > make it a quality product. Then it would seem most of the tech world either hadn't heard that saying or doesn't beleive it. It seems like every time I turn around there's another completely unpolished commercial tech offering. I can't even think of the last time I saw a commercial tech product (hardware or software) that seemed to have gone that final 10% - or even the first half of that final 5% (not counting digital mars, of course ;) ). The Apple II is the first thing that comes to mind - but I might be biased since that's what I started on. Resident Evil 4 or Megaman 9, maybe, if videogames count. The graffitti-1-era PalmOS devces, maybe? That's all I can think of. Certainly nothing from Apple since Woz left, and that's the company most people try to point to as a shining example of alleged "polish".
