On 9/18/2015 8:37 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
Do you have a suggestion on rephrasing?
-Hannes
A couple of ideas:
"Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to
the most popular websites in the world to powerful command-line utilities."
The sentence gets a bit wordy and spans multiple lines even at the
widest layout.
"PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust
web applications and command-line utilities."
It's a bit longer than the original sentence but doesn't span multiple
lines at the widest layout.
Only one sentence should mention the command-line. And the above are
just a couple of ideas. If you don't like either one, I can try coming
up with something else. By the way, even if you don't like the second
idea, just excluding " and command-line utilities" results in a sentence
with more "punch" than the original:
"PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust
web applications."
And it's shorter than the original too.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Thomas Hruska <thru...@cubiclesoft.com> 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.
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