Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-06 Thread Sean C. McCarthy
B. van Ouwerkerk wrote: I can tell you that in general, companies in Europe appears to be more open to open-source solutions much more than ones in the US. Of course, Europe is comprised of lots of different countries, and each country has lots of different companies, so your mileage may

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread Geoff Caplan
Miles Fascinating link and series of articles. Well worth reading. One of my VFP buddies copies his entire set of classes into every new project he starts; I've also seen scenarios where to use one or two useful functions you had to import a whole class structure. Yes, I think he raises

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Geoff, I'm getting a 404 not found on that URL. Please check it. Miles At 05:07 PM 9/6/01 +0100, Geoff Caplan wrote: Michael Kimsal wrote Tell me more about your thoughts on this please. One of the strengths of PHP is the gentle learning curve. This means that a lot of people are using it as

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread * RzE:
Original message From: Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:44:16PM -0300 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository Geoff, I'm getting a 404 not found on that URL. Please check it. Miles /Original message Reply

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread Geoff Caplan
Hi I'm getting a 404 not found on that URL. Please check it. Oops - silly typo - and I double checked it too! Here is the address: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6888/prpats.htm Actually, this is a pretty interesting site. The root is at:

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread Geoff Caplan
Michael Kimsal wrote Tell me more about your thoughts on this please. One of the strengths of PHP is the gentle learning curve. This means that a lot of people are using it as their first programming language, and a lot of the traffic on the lists, and the articles on the PHP sites, are at a

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

2001-09-06 Thread Geoff Caplan
Hi Thomas Deliduka wrote: Actually this originally started ... with my question as to what to tell my JSP-loving buddy that PHP isn't an antiquated and dying language/processing system. I have a proposal for the PHP gurus which should help establish PHP's credentials as a serious tool with

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-05 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
I can tell you that in general, companies in Europe appears to be more open to open-source solutions much more than ones in the US. Of course, Europe is comprised of lots of different countries, and each country has lots of different companies, so your mileage may vary. In The Netherlands

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-02 Thread Valter Santos
-Original Message- From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP At 01:40 31-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: Whoever hears you may even believe

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-02 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 03:11 03-09-01, Valter Santos wrote: In this company, they have choose Microsoft stuff because they think it is the right choice for what they do. For some things, PHP could be a better choice, but it would be hard to convince who is in charge above me because PHP does not benefit of

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-02 Thread Valter Santos
: [PHP] The future of PHP At 03:11 03-09-01, Valter Santos wrote: In this company, they have choose Microsoft stuff because they think it is the right choice for what they do. For some things, PHP could be a better choice, but it would be hard to convince who is in charge above me

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-01 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Friday 31 August 2001 15:22, Manuel Lemos wrote: I actually mention PHP-GTK in my sessions. I mention it as an anecdote, much like I mention some of the other interesting modules and projects in PHP (e.g., PEAR). I'm really not sure why people think I'm trying to bury PHP-GTK. Just

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-01 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 16:22 31-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: Oh, man, do you really do that? That is worse than not mention it at all. You may be joking but not everybody may understand it that way. Doing that you ruining the credibility of those efforts that take PHP far out what originally it was meant for. If you

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-09-01 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 14:52 01-09-01, Christian Reiniger wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 15:22, Manuel Lemos wrote: I actually mention PHP-GTK in my sessions. I mention it as an anecdote, much like I mention some of the other interesting modules and projects in PHP (e.g., PEAR). I'm really not sure why

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 01:40 31-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: Whoever hears you may even believe that Microsoft products and supporting sites are successful because they don't have flaws. Sorry, but honestely this sounds like an excuse for not doing it. Microsoft chooses which sites

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread Christopher CM Allen
Php'ers: These are great points that have been brought up (a kinda synopsis, since we are repeating here :) synopsis 1) some want direct marketing 2) Some believe the status quo is enough 3) all agreee php is useful as a web development tool/language 4) some agree that it can/should be more

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread Thomas Deliduka
Actually this originally started (If you're referring to the thread itself) with my question as to what to tell my JSP-loving buddy that PHP isn't an antiquated and dying language/processing system. I NEVER would have thought it was balloon into this conversation! On 8/31/2001 10:29 AM this was

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread Philip Olson
looks bright. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread pierre-yves
of the language are focusing on making the best web development language out there. (even if it is already the best) py - Original Message - From: Christopher CM Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] The future

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP or my 2 cents

2001-08-31 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
I think with everyone replying to The future of PHP e-mails and putting in their two cents, we're eventually going to raise that $100,000 in no time. g Yeah.. not to mention the time it takes to read or just download those messages. I stopped counting and started hitting the delete button.

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-31 Thread Richard Lynch
looks bright. The future's so bright, I need to wear shades. Sorry, couldn't resist. Bottom line I'm hearing: The Dev team has no more hours to give, and is focussing on what they believe is right. If somebody wants to sink time/money into this, go for it. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP or my 2 cents

2001-08-30 Thread Matthew A. Schneider
, August 29, 2001 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Manuel, Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project? Fred Steinkopf -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP or my 2 cents

2001-08-30 Thread CC Zona
In article 010001c1311e$d86ebb40$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew A. Schneider) wrote: Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project? Although Fred's comments appear rhetorical, the

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP or my 2 cents

2001-08-30 Thread Navid Yar
: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP or my 2 cents In article 010001c1311e$d86ebb40$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew A. Schneider) wrote: Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project? Although

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Richard Lynch
Can small business live from e-commerce today? What is the relevance of your question? Do businesses live from their telephone? Whether they do or not, they need it in either case. AFAIK, it costs a lot more money to have any start and operate a e-commerce business than a telephone.

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Richard Lynch
(Even though I didn't understand quite how shared objects work. g ) Like, I only did it once, and it was GD, and about 80% of the time it puked trying to display an image, but... Basically, if you compile using --with-apxs in the first place, and then you re-compile from source using that

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Richard Lynch
This has strayed off-topic a bit. Unless you're into music and/or business planning for e-commerce, you probably should hit delete now... How about this one, doing *EXTREMELY* well selling CDs online: http://CDBaby.com/ Of course, that has almost nothing to do with his choice of PHP

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Egan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:52:33 -0500, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which dot-bomb had a business plan, with a revenue model, which did *NOT* involve going into heavy debt and blowing huge piles of VC money for several years in a market-share grab on the Internet, where the barrier to

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Zeev Suraski
Manuel, I started answering your letter point by point, but stopped, as it wouldn't have gotten us anywhere. I'm sorry if sharing my (IMHO very realistic) estimate of the PHP world seemed like an insult to you or anybody else. Not everything that is done in the PHP world is of good quality.

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Zeev, Zeev Suraski wrote: Manuel, I started answering your letter point by point, but stopped, as it wouldn't have gotten us anywhere. I'm sorry if sharing my (IMHO very realistic) estimate of the PHP world seemed like an insult to you or anybody else. Not everything that is

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
Message- From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Hello Zeev, Zeev Suraski wrote: Manuel, I started answering your letter point by point, but stopped, as it wouldn't have gotten us

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-30 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 01:40 31-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: Whoever hears you may even believe that Microsoft products and supporting sites are successful because they don't have flaws. Sorry, but honestely this sounds like an excuse for not doing it. Microsoft chooses which sites it links from microsoft.com *very*

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Frederick L. Steinkopf
: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives depend

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 05:21 29-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: If when you mean pro-active you mean that's intentional and is all part of a plan, then we agree. If you acted somehow to promote PHP and got some unexpected results (good or bad) that is still marketing although not pro-active. Regardless of this

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Manuel Lemos« am 2001-08-28 um 23:21:54 -0300 : Man, give it some time! How long was it since Andrei released PHP-GTK? How old is PHP now? Exactly. And also Perl wasn't made to create GUI apps, was it? But look how many Perl GUI apps there are out there now. Eg. all (? at least a

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives depend on the acceptance of PHP as a wide spread language! Manuel, please,

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Hello, These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in comparision to promote PHP

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Frederick L. Steinkopf wrote: Manuel, Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project? Because I do not depend on the PHP future for my professional life. That is a role for PHP core developers that

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, one assumption you seem to have is the ongoing viability of php (if not the very livelihood of we the developers using php) is somehow a function of the number of folks who know what php is. that somehow the more folks know about php, the better php gets. it also seems that you feel

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 15:19 29-08-01, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Manuel Lemos« am 2001-08-28 um 23:21:54 -0300 : Man, give it some time! How long was it since Andrei released PHP-GTK? How old is PHP now? Exactly. And also Perl wasn't made to create GUI apps, was it? But look how many Perl GUI apps

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
If you read my messages in the thread from the beginning you can see that basically the current problems of PHP in its acceptance are more with the people view of PHP than about its technical abilities. It is a known fact that PHP is very good for Web programming. The problem is that not

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Ninety-Nine Ways To Die
I attended one of your conferences / training sessions, the Linux Conference in NYC, and I have to say it was excellent, and certainly motivational. Through that one day of your speech it motivated me enough to get off my bum and start using PHP in our environment for whatever we possibly

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Jeff Lewis
Damn, I wish I had read that thre was this event in Toronto, I would have liked to attend! :) - Linux User Group in Toronto, Canada I agree, suggestion and constructive criticism are fine but lets not start attacking the guys who have put in countless hours to make PHP what it is today. I'm

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Zeev Suraski« am 2001-08-29 um 19:43:15 +0300 : very useful, especially to people who already know PHP. However, assuming that it would ever catch a significant share of the GUI market is naive, IMHO. Well, my point was, that at the beginning of the Perl-GTK binding, noone would

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Zeev, Zeev Suraski wrote: If you are going to descriminate sites based on subjective criteria, like matters of taste or points of view that vary greatly from person to person, that is bad because you will certainly leave out contributions that could help greatly PHP and in the end

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 20:23 29-08-01, Alexander Skwar wrote: However, I don't think it's right to say that this will never ever happen, like you do. And I also do think, that it's counter-productive from you to say something like this. I mean, it would be okay (with me), if you kinda ignored this. But what's so

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Dan Harrington
Message- From: Ninety-Nine Ways To Die [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:18 AM To: Manuel Lemos; Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP I attended one of your conferences / training sessions, the Linux Conference in NYC

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: If you read my messages in the thread from the beginning you can see that basically the current problems of PHP in its acceptance are more with the people view of PHP than about its technical abilities. It is a known fact that PHP is very good for Web

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Zeev Suraski« am 2001-08-29 um 20:32:32 +0300 : What I *am* saying is that GUI apps are not PHP's main strength, and thus, should not be its main focus. If we try to push and market PHP, we should pick reasonable objectives - and pushing it as a platform is much more attainable

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Brian Tanner
29, 2001 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Grrr !! same for me, I never knew you were in Montreal, - Linux Expo - Montreal, Canada Now I see why the calandar is so useful on php.net !! py p.s. in june I was probably too busy at the jazz festival tho

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
The talks that you give are for people that already know about PHP. No they aren't. As I said in my message, the seminar series I did were specifically for people who knew nothing about PHP and it was presented alongside other technologies. But yes, the people would have to have had some

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Miles Thompson
Could we cool it down a little ... maybe let a day go by before hitting Send once more on this thread? Attacking Rasmus and Zeev is counterproductive, and it's starting to sound pretty hostile. The whole PHP development team is doing a fantastic job. (Even though I didn't understand quite

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-29 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
/ -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:10 PM To: Manuel Lemos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP The talks that you give are for people that already know about PHP. No they aren't. As I said in my

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Zeev, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 23:02 26-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: I don't think we have the same understanding of what is marketing. For me, marketing is being proactive in terms of promoting something before the potential market. Seeing people advocating PHP or analysts covering PHP

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Julio Nobrega Trabalhando wrote: Hi Manuel, Great post. I enjoyed the part where you said it would be a good idea to do some 'competition' with php programmers, sponsored by some company. Actually, what I was suggested was not invented. It seems some body with great interest

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives depend on the acceptance of PHP as a wide spread language! Manuel, please, give this

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-28 Thread mike cullerton
--On Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:42 PM -0300 Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives depend

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-27 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 08:07 27-08-01, Robin Chen wrote: This is very true. I have a few ideas that I want to sell, but the only way that I can do it with PHP is to give out the source, and the user is expected to know how to install PHP and set up the script. If I can compile the PHP script, then I can sell the

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Zeev Suraski« am 2001-08-27 um 09:40:40 +0300 : Regarding source code hiding, you can use the Zend Encoder. Pricing wise, the lowest you can get it for right now is $50/month, which may be too high for certain developers. Uhm, really? I mean, if you don't make $50/month, the

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-27 Thread Julio Nobrega Trabalhando
Hi Manuel, Great post. I enjoyed the part where you said it would be a good idea to do some 'competition' with php programmers, sponsored by some company. For example, most times when I want a php script, either I go to Hotscripts.com or Sourceforge.net. Sf.net, by rebound, makes me

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-27 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 12:46 27-08-01, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Zeev Suraski« am 2001-08-27 um 09:40:40 +0300 : Regarding source code hiding, you can use the Zend Encoder. Pricing wise, the lowest you can get it for right now is $50/month, which may be too high for certain developers. Uhm, really?

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-26 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 05:36 26-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: The first problem is technical. You just keep developing PHP to satisfy the user needs as soon as you perceive them and that's it. I think we're doing that nicely, but it's quite true that meeting the technical needs is not enough. The second problem is

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-26 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 05:36 26-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: The first problem is technical. You just keep developing PHP to satisfy the user needs as soon as you perceive them and that's it. I think we're doing that nicely, but it's quite true that meeting the technical needs is

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-26 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 23:02 26-08-01, Manuel Lemos wrote: I don't think we have the same understanding of what is marketing. For me, marketing is being proactive in terms of promoting something before the potential market. Seeing people advocating PHP or analysts covering PHP here and there is not proactive at all.

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-26 Thread Robin Chen
This is very true. I have a few ideas that I want to sell, but the only way that I can do it with PHP is to give out the source, and the user is expected to know how to install PHP and set up the script. If I can compile the PHP script, then I can sell the executables. The users would only

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread Greg Beaver
As a small business owner (partner, actually), I can address this question below: Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... AFAIK, it costs a lot more money to have any start and operate a e-commerce business than a telephone. What is the

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread hassan el forkani
hi rasmus: PHP is not marketed the way Java and .NET is. There are no multi-billion dollar corporations behind PHP and asking us, and apparently me personally, to make that happen is unrealistic; true, but who can afford java and .net? oracle..., certainly not the small and medium size

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread Christopher CM Allen
Good Morning(CST USA here :)) PHP is represented at every important technical conference right alongside Perl and Python. When you hear someone talk about scripting languages, they will usually say Perl, Python and PHP. I don't see any problem with the current state of PHP marketing in

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Services Network, Inc Unleashing Your Potential voice: 800/845-4822 web: http://www.dsnet.net/ -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:52 AM To: Manuel Lemos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP So

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread Martin Wright
Hmmm. Manuel what's that you're smoking? Where can I get some? M -Original Message- From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 August 2001 20:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Hello, Egan wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:04 -0300

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-25 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Rasmus, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: So, it is very hard to convince the anybody to bet all the farm in PHP. You may have the technical arguments, but is not enough, I'm afraid. You in particular, may not need to convince others to bet on PHP, but it is nothing like that for most

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Christopher Cm Allen wrote: I'm afraid that PHP is not yet very credible in that world. The truth is there is not great marketing force behind PHP like there is Sun behind Java or Microsoft behind .Net Good point, and how does one go about marketing a language that is

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Egan wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:32:10 -0500, Christopher CM Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm, I might live in a smaller world than you but I find tons of small to middle businesses that have no clue as to why or how things are done in applications(primarily web). Sure they

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Egan
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many small businesses would like to do e-commerce, but can't afford expensive consultants, expensive hardware, and expensive software tools developed by huge corporations. e-commerce? You mean B2C? Can small business

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Jeff Lewis
-Original Message- From: Egan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many small businesses would like to do e-commerce

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Egan wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many small businesses would like to do e-commerce, but can't afford expensive consultants, expensive hardware, and expensive software tools developed by huge corporations. e-commerce? You

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Navid Yar
. I want it to grow as much as you do. Thanks :) -Original Message- From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP Hello, Christopher Cm Allen wrote: I'm afraid that PHP is not yet very

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Egan
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:30:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can small business live from e-commerce today? What is the relevance of your question? Do businesses live from their telephone? Whether they do or not, they need it in either case. Do you really believe that? As far

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Sean C. McCarthy
Manuel Lemos wrote: Do you really believe that? As far as I can recall, this recession started when a mean judge convicted Microsoft for anti-trust practices. That caused NASDAQ crash that scared people away from investing in tech company stocks. Many Internet companies dried and without

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Egan
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:40:47 -0500, Navid Yar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until Linux gets better at certain things, I think I have no choice but to stick with Windows for now (especially in the design area). True enough, for now. Steam locomotives were an impressive technology, deeply entrenched

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Egan
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:54:33 +0100, Sean C. McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also the effect that this downturn is going through all the chain, from transportation to food and goods. And BTW most companies that caused this were startups not really big companies. Much more information on this

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Martín Marqués
On Vie 24 Ago 2001 16:50, Egan wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:30:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can small business live from e-commerce today? What is the relevance of your question? Do businesses live from their telephone? Whether they do or not, they need it in either

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Lynch
Do you really believe that? As far as I can recall, this recession started when a mean judge convicted Microsoft for anti-trust practices. That caused NASDAQ crash that scared people away from investing in tech company stocks. This is the most warped view-point I have heard... The NASDAQ

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Thomas Deliduka
Wait, you blame someone convicting microsoft for a recession? Give me a break. Things were on the way out before it started. Alan Greenspan was chasing the 'inflation' demon that didn't exist raising interest rates when things were going great. It came back to bite him in the arse with the

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:25:08 -0400, Thomas Deliduka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Wait, you blame someone convicting microsoft for a recession? Give me a break. Things were on the way out before it started. Was that the cause? Not really, there were many causes and that was just one of them. Was

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Dave
He also said he likes how Java is OOP and has great error handling. sound more of a judgement on the staffs ability to program than the capability of the language. A great language can have crappy error handling if the designed doesn't program it in well. Dave -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Christopher CM Allen
Large corporations are like railroad steam locomotives whose era has ended. They may continue running for a while, but in time, many will disappear like the steam locomotive did. hmm not according to Marx. ;p Anyways, back on topic, how to promote php and who is going to do it? Who is

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Kimsal
Jeff Lewis wrote: I actually had a talk with my boss today... We discussed different technologies and why we chose them. The reasons we chose Java/JSP/J2EE etc: 1) Scalability (number 1 reason) 2) Different projects like EJB etc I had been talking about PHP a lot and he says he likes it to

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Jeff Lewis
I would't say that. he says it's modular and easier to code in OOP. Jeff -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael Kimsal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] The future of PHP He also

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Lynch
Can small business live from e-commerce today? Define small. Define e-commerce. How about this one, doing *EXTREMELY* well selling CDs online: http://CDBaby.com/ Of course, that has almost nothing to do with his choice of PHP (the language he could understand the easiest) and everything to

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Egan wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:30:04 -0300, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can small business live from e-commerce today? What is the relevance of your question? Do businesses live from their telephone? Whether they do or not, they need it in either case. AFAIK,

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Thomas Deliduka
Most of my stuff is mingled right with the HTML. Heh. I guess I haven't advanced to the all-code-no-html formatting. :-) Mainly it's like that because I work with a team of designers, They make the shell of the site, I then have to fill in the code. I'm sure many of you will say y'all do it the

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Michael Kimsal wrote: I've asked for help on this before, and will ask again - I've got a framework up at phpshowcase.com which allows people to post their own project details about PHP deployments, large and small. A growing information store there would be one avenue to help

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Richard Lynch wrote: Can small business live from e-commerce today? Define small. Define e-commerce. How about this one, doing *EXTREMELY* well selling CDs online: http://CDBaby.com/ Of course, that has almost nothing to do with his choice of PHP (the language he could

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Manuel Lemos
Richard Lynch wrote: Do you really believe that? As far as I can recall, this recession started when a mean judge convicted Microsoft for anti-trust practices. That caused NASDAQ crash that scared people away from investing in tech company stocks. This is the most warped view-point I

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Dave
done is in fine tuning or developing new master functions... to each thier own Dave -Original Message- From: Jeff Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:22 PM To: Dave; Michael Kimsal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] The future of PHP I would't say

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Dave
PHP can be extremely sloppy or coded extremely modularly. I think it's a shame that most tutorials on PHP (and ASP, from what I've experienced) show comingling of code and HTML - far more than we ever do in day-to-day PHP work. People get the impression that that's the only way to do stuff, and

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
So, it is very hard to convince the anybody to bet all the farm in PHP. You may have the technical arguments, but is not enough, I'm afraid. You in particular, may not need to convince others to bet on PHP, but it is nothing like that for most people that want to live from software

RE: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
25, 2001 1:52 AM To: Manuel Lemos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP So, it is very hard to convince the anybody to bet all the farm in PHP. You may have the technical arguments, but is not enough, I'm afraid. You in particular, may not need to convince others to bet

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
JSP is the wave of the future As was said two years ago about Java. Does anybody still know about Java? ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de http://msie.winware.org ClubWin - Help for

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