On November 25, 2002 10:59 pm, Sascha Schumann wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Ilia A. wrote: > > On November 25, 2002 08:29 pm, Maxim Maletsky wrote: > > > Who cares? I am an Oracle fun, but this is still not my point. My point > > > is that oracle, as arguable as can be, thinks about marketing its > > > product. They biggest sales point, in fact, is not the usability and > > > nor even the documentation. Though, as a matter of fact, every usage of > > > its SQL and PLSQL programming is ported to every language. > > > > My point was that just because application XYZ does something, it does > > not mean PHP should do it to. Plus, comparing a database to a scripting > > language, how about we compare it to something equivalent, like Perl? > > Neither Python nor Perl are web-centered, or easily available > (as in writing their first script) for newbies. They are > hardly comparably in terms of catering to the same set of > people for whom localized error messages would be a big > bonus.
Neither are web centered, but are fairly commonly used in web applications via mod_python, mod_perl and of course cgi at least they are closer then DBMS and RDBMS systems to the subject matter. As far as a newbie language, many people start with things like Visual Basic, Perl and Java. The latter being increasingly popular in school environments. Ilia -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
