Yeah, this whole debate is getting pretty pointless now. Just use
whatever you want to use and move on, cause at the end of the day,
this is a Ruby on Rails group. You can hype PHP all you want Mauricio,
but I will take Ruby over PHP any day. You may feel differently.

--Cory

On Oct 8, 8:24 am, "Maurício Linhares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:14 AM, glennswest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well the had excellent references.
> > And I've look at it. But by software engineering standands
> > php is spagetting code.
>
> By what software engineering standards? Yours?
>
> > Ruby is modular, and for once the object oriented nature works quite well.
>
> Oh, so PHP isn't modular? Do you know that PHP has classes and
> interfaces? And that they do behave almost like Ruby classes and
> Modules?
>
> > ActiveRecord works well as well.
> > Show me php applications that can handle 400 different tables, that can be 
> > developed by one guy in two weeks?
>
> What would keep a PHP application from handling 400 or 400.000 tables?
>
> I've never seen a PHP database driver saying that it had a maximum of
> tables they could handle, maybe you can point me out to this.
>
> And about being developed by one guy, i can't see the problem also. A
> good developer is good in any language he masters.
>
> > I've seen a few php developers that were ok, but its not something I'd
> > recommend a fortune 500 use to do a proper application.
>
> Maybe you should know that Yahoo runs in PHP, Wikipedia runs in PHP,
> many of the biggest websites around use PHP.
>
> Crappy developers write crappy code, no matter what tool they use.
> I've seen some Ruby code that scared me to death, but the language
> isn't to blame, the blame lies on the people that use it.
>
> --
> Maurício Linhareshttp://alinhavado.wordpress.com/(pt-br) 
> |http://blog.codevader.com/(en)
> João Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208
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