While I mostly agree with you, I was less talking about PHP as a language, but more the framework around which it is used.
Consider the approach: 1) Take a standard HTML page 2) Modify it to include some simple PHP (e.g. <%= $myvar %>) 3) Rename the file to .php 4) Upload page. That's about as low a barrier to entry for a non-programmer as I can think of. weepy On 16 Nov, 10:54, Julian Leviston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO basic PHP is very hard to understand, not easy. > > Then again, I'm biased... because I think most programming is hard to > understand, and awfully suckful. Unfortunately, it's all we have at > the moment. > > PHP is easy to understand if you've done some C, which isn't terribly > easy to understand if you've done NO programming. > > Ruby is easy to understand if you've done some smalltalk. > > IMHO, smalltalk (and Objective C, and also Ruby) is easier to > understand than C in terms of powerful code that actually does > something. > > IMHO, Ruby and Smalltalk are FAR easier to understand as first > languages. > > The easiest way to prototype things is modification of template code > in-place, or generators (they're somewhat equivalent), in my opinion. > > Just my two cents worth. > > Julian. > > On 16/11/2008, at 9:48 PM, weepy wrote: > > > > > I was reading about your future plans for Merb 1.x > > > In particular I was interested about the idea of rapid/easy > > prototyping and what ideas you had there. > > > Ideas that spring to my mind: > > > * similarities between very-flat and Sinatra/Camping > > * basic PHP is very easy to understand and deploy. > > * similarities between ERB and PHP. > > > Interested to see what else you have in mind ! > > > weepy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
