I do think you should re-evaluate your perception of what PHP was meant for. I am of the view that it has steadily been stepping out of its old shoes and PHPv5 is promising very advanced OO capabilities. (http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/10007).
Also, this article: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2107291 (the grants but especially the 3rd and 2nd last paragraphs) does wet my appetite further.
Consider: - Works server-side - Works client-side - multi-platform - very quick and easy to code - speed - runs on a terminal, GUI, web interface - IDE (betas) - compiler (being promised) - pure-bred OO (promised with v5) - Huge amount of GPL applications, classes and technical skill can be found - FREE
What's missing? and Why not?
Alternatives?
- C: Development too slow
- Java: I Dont like programming in it...
- Python: Maybe
- Perl: reading Hebrew is not as hard
- Ruby: Yes, I like this, but its much too young to predict where it will go
- Delphi: ? Its next release will be quite important for its future.
I dont think I have missed anything else worth mentioning. (Doesn't VB stand for Victoria Bitter?)
Cheers Will
At 21:34 2003-03-11 +0000, you wrote:
I looks quite good, but in my opinion PHP should be used for what it was meant
for - web dev.
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 8:17 am, Will Pilvio wrote: > For those that dont get enough of php with server-side programming: > > PHP-GTK http://gtk.php.net/ > PHP-GTK is an extension for PHP programming language that implements > language bindings for GTK+ toolkit. It provides an object-oriented > interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing > client side cross-platform GUI applications. >
