Oh Gawd. Just when I think our (Redfish, sfX, wedtech) recent
discoveries about the coolness, and hopefully ubiquitousness of
JavaScript promised a world w/o PHP, I get a homework assignment (Web
Team @ sfX) that requires PHP!
Groan! But then I found out, once again, that PHP had features I
hadn't known about. Closures! Better objects & classes than I had
known about. And believe or not, a desktop command line interface .. a
shell!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php
For the non-programmers amongst us, PHP is to web servers as JS is to
the browser.
Now, I really, really DO want to have the same language in both client
and server .. a peer architecture, and I prefer JS (it's far more
stable and standard too), but PHP ain't as bad as I had thought.
-- Owen
On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Just to help folks scratching their heads on the discussion, here is
a good list of JavaScript outside of the browser.
JavaScript (Uses_outside_web_pages) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Uses_outside_web_pages
-- Owen
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