Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
BM>> That may be the worst done article I have ever read. I could BM>> rewrite every paragraph and turn it on ASP or Perl or any BM>> language. He obviously did not put much effort into it. Well, see - to write an article on CF/PHP comparison, you need person to know CF and PHP. It's pretty har

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-18 Thread Zeev Suraski
I actually don't think that understating the importance of the article, or mocking its authors, is going to do us any good. Fact is that people do read it, and worse, very often they only look at the bottom line, without even looking for the reasoning. I'd happily reply to some of their invali

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-18 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 08:07 18/5/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Responding to this article only prolongs its life. > > > > Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report. > > These are not technical publications; they are the Popular Mechanics of > the PC > > world. When considering lang

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread Michael Loftis
They were actually considering Windows as a viable platform for a server at all. *shudder* John Donagher wrote: > Responding to this article only prolongs its life. > > Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report. > These are not technical publications; they are th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> Responding to this article only prolongs its life. > > Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report. > These are not technical publications; they are the Popular Mechanics of the PC > world. When considering languages/environments to use when building an > applicatio

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread John Donagher
Responding to this article only prolongs its life. Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report. These are not technical publications; they are the Popular Mechanics of the PC world. When considering languages/environments to use when building an application, very fe

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread Gavin Sherry
There is a disappointing trend in 'mainstream' commentary on open source projects. This is an example of one. In the last year of so I have had a lot of experience with poor media coverage of projects I am either involved in or follow closely. One of the worst being an all out attack on PostgreSQ

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Moon
That may be the worst done article I have ever read. I could rewrite every paragraph and turn it on ASP or Perl or any language. He obviously did not put much effort into it. My Take: "The Unix version of ASP, unfortunately, cannot be taken seriously as it does not exist except in a very expen

Re: [PHP-DEV] Zdnet Article

2001-05-17 Thread Nick Loman
"get some skills" please ZDNet - that has to be one of the poorest reviews of anything on any platform ever. No comments system either -- probably using BroadVision :/ Is there a php-advocacy list? I'm getting sick of having to explain exactly why PHP is better than ColdFusion et al. It would b