Do you have a suggestion on rephrasing? -Hannes
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Thomas Hruska <[email protected]> wrote: > When visitors hit the php.net homepage, they are greeted with: > > "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially > suited to web development. > > Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the > most popular websites in the world." > > While the statements are true, it is missing one of the core features of > PHP: The command-line. PHP is incredibly useful as a scripting language > for the command-line too. It isn't just for web servers. All of my cron > scripts are PHP scripts. When I need to do some quick-n-dirty processing of > some data, PHP running from a command-line is my go-to weapon of choice. > And, of course, PHP powers my websites. One language to rule them all and so > on. > > Ever since I figured out PHP ran on the command-line years ago, I more or > less stopped developing compiled command-line apps. I rarely need to fire > up Visual C++ these days because I can more write a PHP script and run it > from the command-line in a fraction of the time. (I was a C++ addict.) > > Most people seem to write Python, Go, or Perl (and sometimes Bash) scripts > for the command-line because they failed to realize that PHP is just as > useful, if not more so, because they think "PHP is web only" and they "don't > want a web application". I used to be in the same boat. Then I found the > PHP command-line boat and kissed the other barnacle-laden boat goodbye. > > I digress. > > In my world, PHP is equally suited for command-line development as it is for > web development...I happen to do a *lot* of both. > > Just something to consider - the tagline on the homepage might be keeping > PHP from being even bigger than it is already. > > -- > Thomas Hruska > CubicleSoft President > > I've got great, time saving software that you will find useful. > > http://cubiclesoft.com/ > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
