Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Is he possibly getting confused with Javascript? Thanks, Ash -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On 13-08-20 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. I think you can use w3techs.com as a very reliable source. But your teacher may have been talking about javascript which is not the same thing as java despite the similarity in their names. Javascript is part of the web page, and executes in the users browser. It is very common and may rival PHP in frequency of use. -- Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Is he possibly getting confused with Javascript? Thanks, Ash No, this guy is smarter than that -- he's pretty sharp -- so I listen to what he has to say. Here's an interesting link: http://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-of-2013/ But the link does not divide languages between Web and Other -- other than Android Java, which I do not believe is also included in the above Java number. I think there is more going on here than what I know. For example, my college has numerous (over 3) JAVA classes filled to the max, whereas my PHP class was canceled due to lack of students. Granted the college could have advertised my PHP class more, but still there is an overwhelming demand for Java Programmers. My questions is Why? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On 13-08-20 10:19 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Is he possibly getting confused with Javascript? Thanks, Ash No, this guy is smarter than that -- he's pretty sharp -- so I listen to what he has to say. Here's an interesting link: http://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-of-2013/ But the link does not divide languages between Web and Other -- other than Android Java, which I do not believe is also included in the above Java number. I think there is more going on here than what I know. For example, my college has numerous (over 3) JAVA classes filled to the max, whereas my PHP class was canceled due to lack of students. Granted the college could have advertised my PHP class more, but still there is an overwhelming demand for Java Programmers. My questions is Why? I think that the overwhelming majority of Android apps are written in JAVA. That explains its popularity. -- Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
2013/8/20 Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Is he possibly getting confused with Javascript? Thanks, Ash No, this guy is smarter than that -- he's pretty sharp -- so I listen to what he has to say. Here's an interesting link: http://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-of-2013/ But the link does not divide languages between Web and Other -- other than Android Java, which I do not believe is also included in the above Java number. I think there is more going on here than what I know. For example, my college has numerous (over 3) JAVA classes filled to the max, whereas my PHP class was canceled due to lack of students. Granted the college could have advertised my PHP class more, but still there is an overwhelming demand for Java Programmers. My questions is Why? Just tell your teacher: Java isn't more popular than PHP as _web_-language ;) I think too, that he actually meant javascript, which is indeed a very popular client-side language. But javascript and PHP has different use-cases, thus saying one is more popular doesn't tell you anything about whether they are in competition against each other, or not (hint: they arent : :D). Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- github.com/KingCrunch
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
The article very clearly says.. No language can be considered as good just because there are more jobs for the same. Yes, but I am not making a value (good/bad) judgment -- Instead I am asking for references supporting which language (Java or PHP) as being the most popular for Web Development? Do you have any? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
I think the big takeaway there is that JAVA is one of the primary language for larger companies and applications. Start ups tend to use smaller easier to use tools like php / javascript / python / ruby. I saw one figure recently that put php at 75% of websites out there (i think that came out when google decided to support php for the app engine) On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Is he possibly getting confused with Javascript? Thanks, Ash No, this guy is smarter than that -- he's pretty sharp -- so I listen to what he has to say. Here's an interesting link: http://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-of-2013/ But the link does not divide languages between Web and Other -- other than Android Java, which I do not believe is also included in the above Java number. I think there is more going on here than what I know. For example, my college has numerous (over 3) JAVA classes filled to the max, whereas my PHP class was canceled due to lack of students. Granted the college could have advertised my PHP class more, but still there is an overwhelming demand for Java Programmers. My questions is Why? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Sebastian Krebs krebs@gmail.com wrote: Just tell your teacher: Java isn't more popular than PHP as _web_-language ;) I think too, that he actually meant javascript, which is indeed a very popular client-side language. But javascript and PHP has different use-cases, thus saying one is more popular doesn't tell you anything about whether they are in competition against each other, or not (hint: they arent : :D). Two things: 1. He's not my teacher -- he is a fellow teacher AND a smart one! He knows the difference between Java and JavaScript. 2. In life, you will find that popularity (often over which is best) is the main reason why things prosper. Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Liam l...@3sharpltd.com wrote: You do realise you are on a PHP based user subscription, so the vast majority will go with PHP, so you will get a one sided argument. Regards, Liam I realize that many, maybe the majority, will be bias. HOWEVER -- there are professionals on this list that do know and it is to them I am asking. Remember, I am also asking for supporting documentation of their view. The people who respond with just their opinion are doing just that -- there is no support. My nature is to seek the truth regardless of my bias. Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
Here are two references from the Wikipedia article on Java in case you haven't looked at them already. http://www.langpop.com/ http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html On 20 August 2013 10:43, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Liam l...@3sharpltd.com wrote: You do realise you are on a PHP based user subscription, so the vast majority will go with PHP, so you will get a one sided argument. Regards, Liam I realize that many, maybe the majority, will be bias. HOWEVER -- there are professionals on this list that do know and it is to them I am asking. Remember, I am also asking for supporting documentation of their view. The people who respond with just their opinion are doing just that -- there is no support. My nature is to seek the truth regardless of my bias. Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Liam l...@3sharpltd.com wrote: You do realise you are on a PHP based user subscription, so the vast majority will go with PHP, so you will get a one sided argument. Regards, Liam I realize that many, maybe the majority, will be bias. HOWEVER -- there are professionals on this list that do know and it is to them I am asking. Remember, I am also asking for supporting documentation of their view. The people who respond with just their opinion are doing just that -- there is no support. My nature is to seek the truth regardless of my bias. Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:56 AM, David OBrien dgobr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Liam l...@3sharpltd.com wrote: You do realise you are on a PHP based user subscription, so the vast majority will go with PHP, so you will get a one sided argument. Regards, Liam I realize that many, maybe the majority, will be bias. HOWEVER -- there are professionals on this list that do know and it is to them I am asking. Remember, I am also asking for supporting documentation of their view. The people who respond with just their opinion are doing just that -- there is no support. My nature is to seek the truth regardless of my bias. Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php If your looking for popularity... http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
2013/8/20 Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Sebastian Krebs krebs@gmail.com wrote: Just tell your teacher: Java isn't more popular than PHP as _web_-language ;) I think too, that he actually meant javascript, which is indeed a very popular client-side language. But javascript and PHP has different use-cases, thus saying one is more popular doesn't tell you anything about whether they are in competition against each other, or not (hint: they arent : :D). Two things: 1. He's not my teacher -- he is a fellow teacher AND a smart one! He knows the difference between Java and JavaScript. OKOK, sorry -_- But @topic: For example see http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Really: Java is a good and mature language, but it is not a web-language. 2. In life, you will find that popularity (often over which is best) is the main reason why things prosper. I am not saying, that Java is bad, or it is not popular. It is just not that popular in the web-ecosystem :) There was one statement I remember (I don't know, where I got it from): A static language doesn't fit very well into the dynamic web. :) Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- github.com/KingCrunch
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
Sebastian Krebs wrote: 1. He's not my teacher -- he is a fellow teacher AND a smart one! He knows the difference between Java and JavaScript. OKOK, sorry -_- But @topic: For example see http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Really: Java is a good and mature language, but it is not a web-language. 2. In life, you will find that popularity (often over which is best) is the main reason why things prosper. I think he is simply wrong in his interpretation of the facts. The number of websites powered by PHP vastly exceeds Java and every other language http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Says it all! But you would never use PHP for a distributed application, and then http://www.langpop.com/ comes into play when the fight is between Java and C/C++ and personally I'm happier with C/C++ than Java even on Android. But even though you would not use PHP for distributed applications, it still gets a good 4th in that chart as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? While I couldn't find anything comparable - from the same source and window of time - for Java trends on the web, there was an article released by Netcraft in January of this year that shows PHPs continued growth[1]. It may, at the least, provide a basis for comparison should you or your adversary be so inclined to dig deeper. ^1: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-grows.html -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
What a co-incidence! I was searching PHP vs Python in google and reading articles. Now a similar mail on my inbox. When any language war goes on, everyone gets biased by the language he/she loves. It applies here too. I think your college teacher loves Java. During PHPvsPython search I found this info graphic https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/#. Some of the statistics contain Java too. Also you can search PHP and Web Development in big job sites and compare with same search but with Java. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Shiplu.Mokadd.im ImgSign.com | A dynamic signature machine Innovation distinguishes between follower and leader -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
shiplu wrote: During PHPvsPython search I found this info graphic https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/#. Some of the statistics contain Java too. Also you can search PHP and Web Development in big job sites and compare with same search but with Java. 'Python is arguably the most readable programming language' probably says it all? Personally I find it almost impossible to understand when coming in cold to someone elses code ... Java is not much better ... but I still have to persist with both since some key elements of a usable PHP IDE now rely on both :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: shiplu wrote: During PHPvsPython search I found this info graphic https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/#. Some of the statistics contain Java too. Also you can search PHP and Web Development in big job sites and compare with same search but with Java. 'Python is arguably the most readable programming language' probably says it all? Personally I find it almost impossible to understand when coming in cold to someone elses code ... Java is not much better ... but I still have to persist with both since some key elements of a usable PHP IDE now rely on both :( Python may be most readable, but it's a huge fail for two reasons: 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. (Don't even start in on C. It's a compiled language.) Java is an incredibly heavy language for web work. Much like Ruby but more so. I'll say it again-- one of the reasons for the popularity of PHP is its similarity to C, at least a passing skill in which is common to most programmers. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On 20/08/13 15:00, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com tedd, Java is a meticulously-constructed language with very strict typing and a large commercial organisation which purports to support and develop it. PHP is a scruffy heap of loosely typed cruft which is easy to knock together and build big things from, but has a semi-commercial and community support structure. Guess which one the big commercial organistations (banks, industry etc.) prefer to trust? Guess which is then popular for college courses since it provides the students with a basis in something that is commercially desirable? From my personal point of view, I started with BASIC, then FORTRAN (in a scientific environment), then C/C++, then Java (which I saw as the language C++ should have been), and then moved on to PHP in a search to find a way of building web apps in the sort of timescales that small-medium enterprises are prepared to accept. Popularity is in the eye of the beholder... Cheers Pete -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On 8/20/13 9:00 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd As others have said, he's simply wrong. :-) Goodness of either language aside, the data (W3Techs is what I usually cite) is clear: For server-side web dev, PHP is the 800 lb gorilla. For all programming combined? Java may be bigger than PHP, sure. For embedded? No question, Java PHP as PHP has almost no presence. For enterprise shops? There probably are segments of the market that are very Java-centric, even on the web, no question. It's all how you define your scope. I'm sure he could come up with some definition of market that would show Java having a bigger marketshare than PHP, within that market. The question is whether that is a valid definition of market in context. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. :-) As countering data-points: Wordpress alone is 18% of the web. Drupal is the #1 CMS used to power US government websites. Universities and Museums are very big on Drupal. (That's my day job. g) PHP's marketshare is huge, even in enterprise. --Larry Garfield -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
I'll chime in on this one. I've been job hunting recently, and I can say that while I've seen a lot of people asking for Java experience, I'm not sure I've seen a single posting asking specifically for PHP. There've been a few looking for Drupal, or Wordpress, but no You must be able to write PHP code to work here. I can also say that the more I work with Java-based programs, the more I want to see Java written into history books as a terrible idea that sadly persisted until nearly 2014. As an example: I need to provide IT support to people using a tool written in Java. It turns out that if you install Java 7, the tool doesn't work at all. If you install Java 6 with the newest updates, it works, but occasionally crashes the entire computer. No, you have to have Java 6 update 22 in order for this software to be reliable. There are other tools I've used that failed completely on minor version switches, and that just plain SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. Yes, there are going to be minor changes when a language upgrades, that's why there are upgrades. But they're usually minor, in a This didn't work the way it was supposed to, so we fixed it kind of way. If you were taking advantage of that bug, you get knocked down, but the vast majority of software will keep running. Java doesn't seem to work that way, at least from an IT worker's perspective. Andy McKenzie On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
2013/8/20 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Sebastian Krebs wrote: 1. He's not my teacher -- he is a fellow teacher AND a smart one! He knows the difference between Java and JavaScript. OKOK, sorry -_- But @topic: For example see http://w3techs.com/**technologies/overview/**programming_language/allhttp://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Really: Java is a good and mature language, but it is not a web-language. 2. In life, you will find that popularity (often over which is best) is the main reason why things prosper. I think he is simply wrong in his interpretation of the facts. The number of websites powered by PHP vastly exceeds Java and every other language http://w3techs.com/**technologies/overview/**programming_language/allhttp://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Says it all! But you would never use PHP for a distributed application, and then http://www.langpop.com/ comes into play when the fight is between Java and C/C++ and personally I'm happier with C/C++ than Java even on Android. But even though you would not use PHP for distributed applications, it still gets a good 4th in that chart as well. Exactly, but the initial explicitly states, that this is about web development :D Don't know, what I should think about langpop.com. A popularity listing, that doesn't take github (or any other repo hoster, than google code) into account? :? Its also quite outdated... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contacthttp://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**ukhttp://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- github.com/KingCrunch
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2013/8/20 Andy McKenzie amckenz...@gmail.com I'll chime in on this one. I've been job hunting recently, and I can say that while I've seen a lot of people asking for Java experience, I'm not sure I've seen a single posting asking specifically for PHP. There've been a few looking for Drupal, or Wordpress, but no You must be able to write PHP code to work here. Thats interesting. I am from Berlin and here, when you say you know PHP and a little bit of one, or two frameworks, they will jump onto you :D I can also say that the more I work with Java-based programs, the more I want to see Java written into history books as a terrible idea that sadly persisted until nearly 2014. As an example: I need to provide IT support to people using a tool written in Java. It turns out that if you install Java 7, the tool doesn't work at all. If you install Java 6 with the newest updates, it works, but occasionally crashes the entire computer. No, you have to have Java 6 update 22 in order for this software to be reliable. There are other tools I've used that failed completely on minor version switches, and that just plain SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. Yes, there are going to be minor changes when a language upgrades, that's why there are upgrades. But they're usually minor, in a This didn't work the way it was supposed to, so we fixed it kind of way. If you were taking advantage of that bug, you get knocked down, but the vast majority of software will keep running. Java doesn't seem to work that way, at least from an IT worker's perspective. Andy McKenzie On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) Here are my two references: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y But I do not know how accurate they are. What say you? Cheers, tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- github.com/KingCrunch
Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA
On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: shiplu wrote: During PHPvsPython search I found this info graphic https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/#. Some of the statistics contain Java too. Also you can search PHP and Web Development in big job sites and compare with same search but with Java. 'Python is arguably the most readable programming language' probably says it all? Personally I find it almost impossible to understand when coming in cold to someone elses code ... Java is not much better ... but I still have to persist with both since some key elements of a usable PHP IDE now rely on both :( Python may be most readable, but it's a huge fail for two reasons: 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. And no ternary operator. tedd ___ tedd sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. 1. Indent properly. In php, if you put an open or close brace out of place your code will break in unexpected ways as well. If it's hard to tell if something is indented properly, your code should be refactored so that it is. 2. In my experience this has a lot to do with how some people use python and not python itself. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: shiplu wrote: During PHPvsPython search I found this info graphic https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/#. Some of the statistics contain Java too. Also you can search PHP and Web Development in big job sites and compare with same search but with Java. 'Python is arguably the most readable programming language' probably says it all? Personally I find it almost impossible to understand when coming in cold to someone elses code ... Java is not much better ... but I still have to persist with both since some key elements of a usable PHP IDE now rely on both :( Python may be most readable, but it's a huge fail for two reasons: 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. And no ternary operator. tedd ___ tedd sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- From the desk of Dan Munro
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On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Pete Ford p...@justcroft.com wrote: tedd, Java is a meticulously-constructed language with very strict typing and a large commercial organisation which purports to support and develop it. PHP is a scruffy heap of loosely typed cruft which is easy to knock together and build big things from, but has a semi-commercial and community support structure. Thanks for the info. :-) FYI -- I am teaching both PHP and JAVA at college level and have taught both for several years as well as other Web Languages. My recent question was simply an attempt to get documentation to support which server-side Web Language is the most popular. Both PHP and Java can be used server-side. I also realize that Java is used for native Android because I also teach Mobile Application Development (MAD -- I even coined the name). So, I am up to my butt in languages (and people who think different than me) -- I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. Thanks, tedd ___ tedd sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dan Munro d...@danmunro.com wrote: 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. 1. Indent properly. In php, if you put an open or close brace out of place your code will break in unexpected ways as well. If it's hard to tell if something is indented properly, your code should be refactored so that it is. 2. In my experience this has a lot to do with how some people use python and not python itself. I can't argue on point two, since that's where all of my worst failure have come from. But as to indenting, I have had the problem of opening a file on a new OS, only to find that the default editor there has wiped out my formatting. With PHP, that's not a big deal: as long as I put my braces in the right places, everything will continue to work. With Python -- or any whitespace delimited language -- it's fatal, and I have to hope I can exit without saving anything. Andy
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On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Sebastian Krebs krebs@gmail.com wrote: Thats interesting. I am from Berlin and here, when you say you know PHP and a little bit of one, or two frameworks, they will jump onto you I'll stay away from Berlin. :-) tedd ___ tedd sperling t...@sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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2013/8/20 Andy McKenzie amckenz...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dan Munro d...@danmunro.com wrote: 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't imagine. 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an interpreted programming language. 1. Indent properly. In php, if you put an open or close brace out of place your code will break in unexpected ways as well. If it's hard to tell if something is indented properly, your code should be refactored so that it is. 2. In my experience this has a lot to do with how some people use python and not python itself. I can't argue on point two, since that's where all of my worst failure have come from. But as to indenting, I have had the problem of opening a file on a new OS, only to find that the default editor there has wiped out my formatting. Who is with me? Thats a good point to restart the tabs-vs-spaces-discussion, isn't? *duckandrun* :D With PHP, that's not a big deal: as long as I put my braces in the right places, everything will continue to work. With Python -- or any whitespace delimited language -- it's fatal, and I have to hope I can exit without saving anything. Andy -- github.com/KingCrunch
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My recent question was simply an attempt to get documentation to support which server-side Web Language is the most popular. Both PHP and Java can be used server-side. I also realize that Java is used for native Android because I also teach Mobile Application Development (MAD -- I even coined the name). So, I am up to my butt in languages (and people who think different than me) -- I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. Well, technically any language can be used server side, it is all on how you set up your server, no? I would tend to think that the biggest out there, is html/php/javascript... and next to that, would be asp, and then java. Do I have proof of this? No, can I get proof, I doubt it, and are there stats on this? To be honest, in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. It is virtually an immeasurable object. There are so many websites out there, that you can't search them all... PHP is simple, and yet powerful to use, and is pretty much the standard for all hosting companies. Now, there is this link... http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html It shows Java as #1, and php as #5, but this is also for PROGRAMMING, does not specify web based programming vs desktop vs MAD (thanks tedd ;) ) so the numbers do not really speak out in this application. Does it really matter? PHP is very huge, widely used, and I would even go so far as to say the 'norm' for website developers, and hosting providers. But that is my $0.02, and for me, I have been with PHP for 7 years professionally, and in college I took VB.net, ASP.net, C++, JAVA and PHP. Only recently have I gotten into C# for desktop applications. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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2013/8/20 Steven Staples sstap...@mnsi.net My recent question was simply an attempt to get documentation to support which server-side Web Language is the most popular. Both PHP and Java can be used server-side. I also realize that Java is used for native Android because I also teach Mobile Application Development (MAD -- I even coined the name). So, I am up to my butt in languages (and people who think different than me) -- I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. Well, technically any language can be used server side, it is all on how you set up your server, no? No. But since node.js I lack an example :D But of course you need the link between the language and the network. I would tend to think that the biggest out there, is html/php/javascript... and next to that, would be asp, and then java. Do I have proof of this? No, can I get proof, I doubt it, and are there stats on this? To be honest, in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. It is virtually an immeasurable object. There are so many websites out there, that you can't search them all... Of course you cannot search them _all_, but again the link: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all There are good hints, how the internet looks like. For example a hoster can simply look at the products he sell. Services like w3techs.com use the reports from the server themself (in most cases the headers), or the file-ending (doesn't work anymore that good, since most sites hide them ;)) and extrapolate this. Of course they are not exact, but I think they show the direction quite accurate. PHP is simple, and yet powerful to use, and is pretty much the standard for all hosting companies. Now, there is this link... http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html It shows Java as #1, and php as #5, but this is also for PROGRAMMING, does not specify web based programming vs desktop vs MAD (thanks tedd ;) ) so the numbers do not really speak out in this application. Also it is the Tiobe-Index. Although it is widely-referenced, the way it calculates their rankings is ... interesting. In fact it only tells you how loud a community around a specific language is. So for example maybe Java is #1, because it is so complex, that it leads to many questions in forums and on stackoverflow. Or PHP is only #5, because most communication is on IRC, or mailinglists. (disclaimer: Of course I faked this examples. Actually I have no idea how the communities around Java and PHP as a whole interacts primary, but I don't think, that they are all equal). I just think, that the Tiobe-Index has a completely different view on what is a popular language, than I have. Does it really matter? PHP is very huge, widely used, and I would even go so far as to say the 'norm' for website developers, and hosting providers. Nope, it doesn't matter :) But that is my $0.02, and for me, I have been with PHP for 7 years professionally, and in college I took VB.net, ASP.net, C++, JAVA and PHP. Only recently have I gotten into C# for desktop applications. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- github.com/KingCrunch
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in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/ On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Sebastian Krebs krebs@gmail.comwrote: 2013/8/20 Steven Staples sstap...@mnsi.net My recent question was simply an attempt to get documentation to support which server-side Web Language is the most popular. Both PHP and Java can be used server-side. I also realize that Java is used for native Android because I also teach Mobile Application Development (MAD -- I even coined the name). So, I am up to my butt in languages (and people who think different than me) -- I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. Well, technically any language can be used server side, it is all on how you set up your server, no? No. But since node.js I lack an example :D But of course you need the link between the language and the network. I would tend to think that the biggest out there, is html/php/javascript... and next to that, would be asp, and then java. Do I have proof of this? No, can I get proof, I doubt it, and are there stats on this? To be honest, in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. It is virtually an immeasurable object. There are so many websites out there, that you can't search them all... Of course you cannot search them _all_, but again the link: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all There are good hints, how the internet looks like. For example a hoster can simply look at the products he sell. Services like w3techs.com use the reports from the server themself (in most cases the headers), or the file-ending (doesn't work anymore that good, since most sites hide them ;)) and extrapolate this. Of course they are not exact, but I think they show the direction quite accurate. PHP is simple, and yet powerful to use, and is pretty much the standard for all hosting companies. Now, there is this link... http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html It shows Java as #1, and php as #5, but this is also for PROGRAMMING, does not specify web based programming vs desktop vs MAD (thanks tedd ;) ) so the numbers do not really speak out in this application. Also it is the Tiobe-Index. Although it is widely-referenced, the way it calculates their rankings is ... interesting. In fact it only tells you how loud a community around a specific language is. So for example maybe Java is #1, because it is so complex, that it leads to many questions in forums and on stackoverflow. Or PHP is only #5, because most communication is on IRC, or mailinglists. (disclaimer: Of course I faked this examples. Actually I have no idea how the communities around Java and PHP as a whole interacts primary, but I don't think, that they are all equal). I just think, that the Tiobe-Index has a completely different view on what is a popular language, than I have. Does it really matter? PHP is very huge, widely used, and I would even go so far as to say the 'norm' for website developers, and hosting providers. Nope, it doesn't matter :) But that is my $0.02, and for me, I have been with PHP for 7 years professionally, and in college I took VB.net, ASP.net, C++, JAVA and PHP. Only recently have I gotten into C# for desktop applications. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- github.com/KingCrunch -- From the desk of Dan Munro
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On 20 Aug 2013, at 21:08, Sebastian Krebs krebs@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/20 Steven Staples sstap...@mnsi.net My recent question was simply an attempt to get documentation to support which server-side Web Language is the most popular. Both PHP and Java can be used server-side. I also realize that Java is used for native Android because I also teach Mobile Application Development (MAD -- I even coined the name). So, I am up to my butt in languages (and people who think different than me) -- I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. Well, technically any language can be used server side, it is all on how you set up your server, no? No. But since node.js I lack an example :D But of course you need the link between the language and the network. The language and the 'link between the language and the network' are two completely separate things. The link, as you put it, is the web server. A web server doesn't need to do anything more than set up environment variables and run an executable, and even setting up the environment is technically optional. BASH can build web pages. I wouldn't recommend using BASH, but there's nothing technically preventing it. Node.js is not the only way to run Javascript outside a browser, and other ways of doing so existed long before Node.js arrived. Most limitations people put on technology are artificial constructions rather than real constraints. tedd: I wouldn't trust any stats you might find since, as has been pointed out, it's incredibly difficult to accurately measure. I'd be careful with the word popular because it really depends on what you're measuring. If you're talking public websites then I'd agree that, anecdotally at least, PHP is more common than any other server-side language. If you're talking about public site visitors or page views it's definitely the most popular, but that's massively skewed by Facebook if you accept that their way of using PHP can still be called PHP. Enterprise usage of PHP is far lower, mainly due to Microsoft's dominance, but I get the feeling this is changing, albeit incredibly slowly. If he means Java is the most popular as in developers would prefer to use it then I'd definitely disagree, but I wouldn't necessarily say that PHP is at the top of that list either. Ultimately I'd want to know what he's trying to prove by saying that. If he's purely engaging in a mine's bigger than yours discussion I'd walk away, leave him to his petty games and actually accomplish something with the time instead. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On 20 Aug 2013, at 21:30, Dan Munro d...@danmunro.com wrote: in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/ That's scanning IP addresses and doesn't come close to answering how big is the internet, assuming that means how many sites are there rather than how many publicly responsive edge servers exist. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 21:44 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 20 Aug 2013, at 21:30, Dan Munro d...@danmunro.com wrote: in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/ That's scanning IP addresses and doesn't come close to answering how big is the internet, assuming that means how many sites are there rather than how many publicly responsive edge servers exist. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ I'd argue that a large proportion of really secure servers out there won't respond to a lot of what Zmap pings out. Nmap works by throwing out requests on a bunch of different ports, not just ping, which is slow, so I'd be surprised if Zmap could really rival that while giving the same results. Bearing in mind there are over 4,000 million (I won't say billion, because that's a million million, despite what the Americans say!) IPv4 address out there, 40 minutes is a ridiculous amount of time to even scan half of that, especially given the fact that IPv6 is being majorly pushed because IPv4 is apparently running out of free address space! Then not forgetting that lots of websites exist on the same IP address/range, I would say the article is lacking on so many details as to be untrue. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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On 20 Aug 2013, at 22:00, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 21:44 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 20 Aug 2013, at 21:30, Dan Munro d...@danmunro.com wrote: in my opinion, that would be like asking how big is the internet?. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/ That's scanning IP addresses and doesn't come close to answering how big is the internet, assuming that means how many sites are there rather than how many publicly responsive edge servers exist. I'd argue that a large proportion of really secure servers out there won't respond to a lot of what Zmap pings out. Nmap works by throwing out requests on a bunch of different ports, not just ping, which is slow, so I'd be surprised if Zmap could really rival that while giving the same results. Bearing in mind there are over 4,000 million (I won't say billion, because that's a million million, despite what the Americans say!) IPv4 address out there, 40 minutes is a ridiculous amount of time to even scan half of that, especially given the fact that IPv6 is being majorly pushed because IPv4 is apparently running out of free address space! Then not forgetting that lots of websites exist on the same IP address/range, I would say the article is lacking on so many details as to be untrue. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's untrue, but it's certainly written with exaggerated implications. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Tedd Sperling wrote: I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_in_most_popular_websites may be a better starting point, but there are no citations to the facts, they are a little dated, and some sites are a little biased in their choices? Move to the top 40 sites and PHP fares a little better - http://rogchap.com/2011/09/06/top-40-website-programming-languages/ but but this data is a little dataed now. Personally I've always used the W3techs figures when I'm doing talks as it is the only consistent source I've found. The netcraft figures would be nice but they only run this intermittently, and last January's figure of 244 million sites at 39% of machines seems a little at odds with the W3techs ones? http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language continues to show PHP rising at the expense of ASP and Java with Perl, Ruby and Python having trouble to stay above 1% combined over the last year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Zmap works by being stateless, so while nmap records which requests go out, zmap fires and forgets, and encodes the request in such a way that the response can provide whatever details it needs to continue the scan. No magic here. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Tedd Sperling wrote: I'm just trying to get documentation to back up my what I think I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Programming_languages_used_in_** most_popular_websiteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_in_most_popular_websitesmay be a better starting point, but there are no citations to the facts, they are a little dated, and some sites are a little biased in their choices? Move to the top 40 sites and PHP fares a little better - http://rogchap.com/2011/09/06/**top-40-website-programming-**languages/http://rogchap.com/2011/09/06/top-40-website-programming-languages/but but this data is a little dataed now. Personally I've always used the W3techs figures when I'm doing talks as it is the only consistent source I've found. The netcraft figures would be nice but they only run this intermittently, and last January's figure of 244 million sites at 39% of machines seems a little at odds with the W3techs ones? http://w3techs.com/ **technologies/history_overview/**programming_languagehttp://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_languagecontinues to show PHP rising at the expense of ASP and Java with Perl, Ruby and Python having trouble to stay above 1% combined over the last year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contacthttp://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**ukhttp://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- From the desk of Dan Munro
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On 8/20/2013 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) While I don't have any references to back it up - my guess would be that Java may be seen as more versatile in general programming terms. A staggering number of enterprise level web applications are built with Java, add to that the possibility of writing Android apps with the same knowledge. Of course, there are many ways to make Android apps without Java - I've written a few myself with simple HTML and Flash Builder. I would say that, in general, the other teacher is incorrect speaking strictly in terms of web development. PHP has already won that crown many times over. That said, when I was in University, it was difficult to find a programming class that taught anything but Java - and that was 10yrs ago now. I chalked it up to the education bubble not being able to see what the rest of the world is actually doing. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:48:01 -0500, GH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please explain Threads to me? Multiple isolated tasks executing at the same time. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Perhaps in specific areas related to the web. But Java is so much more extensive than PHP, I doubt PHP will ever eclipse it. On Jan 1, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Lewis LaCook wrote: ...just looking for opinions: will PHP eclipse (IS PHP eclipsing) Java? bliss lewis lacook = *** Lewis LaCook --Poet-Programmer|||http://www.lewislacook.com/||| Web Programmer|||http://www.corporatepa.com/||| XanaxPop:Mobile Poem Blog- http://www.lewislacook.com/xanaxpop/ Collective Writing Projects-- The Wiki-- http://www.lewislacook.com/wiki/ Appendix M -http://www.lewislacook.com/AppendixM/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Brent Baisley Systems Architect Landover Associates, Inc. Search Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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GH wrote: Can you please explain Threads to me? Well, you start with some sheep... :-) Real Answer: [with gross simplifiations and outright lies to keep things easy] Imagine that you have a program that wants to SEEM to be doing multiple things at once. For example, it wants to have a background window downloading and checking email with a nice progress bar, while in the front window, you are reading your email, deleting the junk, writing email, etc but *NOT* waiting for the download to finish. So, in essence, your program has two little separate programs running inside of it, even though it's really really only one program. Those two little programs are called threads And once you can have two threads, there ain't nothing to stop you from having three, four, or a hundred threads... In theory. You're going to run out of system resources like RAM and stuff at some point. Now, on the plus side, that makes it possible to do certain things that were not feasible before. Like having two things going on at once On the downside, there is some overhead for each thread just to run. And really really only *ONE* thread can be truly running on the processor at any given time. Multiple CPUs increase the number of threads that can run, at least in theory, but you can only run one thread at one time in one processor. So a Xeon Quad could have four truly simultaneous threads going at one time, all from the same program. The bigger downside is that writing good threads that don't step on each others' toes is REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD. They add huge major complexities to your code base, because EVERY line of code in thread A has to worry about what it *MIGHT* do that *MIGHT* screw up the code in thread B. So, take the number of lines in your program, times the number of lines in your program, and that's the number of potential flaws you have to watch out for. :-) Threads complicate the ability to scale your application by only throwing more hardware at it (as Rasmus just said). So hard, that many (all?) PHP Core Team Members don't think adding threads is a Good Idea (tm) because the benefits are outweighed by the costs for the target audience of PHP scripters. Other languages have other features, and the language designers have made informed (or not) desicions to add (or not) those features. I personally don't think PHP *needs* threads, and it would complicate far too many things if they were added -- certainly they shouldn't just be on automatically so PHP scripters can start making threads willy-nilly! That way lies madness. You'd have a zillion BAD scripts out there using threads in wildly inappropriate situations. I suppose that a 'thread' extension could be added, at least in theory... By all means, those of you who want such a feature are free to start coding :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Can you please explain Threads to me? On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:38:50 -0600, Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:07:20 -0800 (PST), Lewis LaCook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...just looking for opinions: will PHP eclipse (IS PHP eclipsing) Java? I'd like to see threads added to PHP. Java has them, and Perl does as well. And I'm sure there are others that I don't know about. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:07:20 -0800 (PST), Lewis LaCook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...just looking for opinions: will PHP eclipse (IS PHP eclipsing) Java? I'd like to see threads added to PHP. Java has them, and Perl does as well. And I'm sure there are others that I don't know about. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs. Java
Ed Lazor wrote: Any comments or opinions on pros and cons, especially in terms of stability, security, and future upgradability? This is a a religious war topic. Horses for course but in this list of PHP fanatics you should expect only one answer - PHP is better for web applications - no contest when it comes to mobiles or desktop applications. I know this is probably one of those religious war topics, but I'd still like your feedback. -Ed -- Raditha Dissanayake. http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | http://www.raditha.com/megaupload Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader Graphical User Inteface. Just 128 KB | with progress bar. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs. Java
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IMHO java is to be avoided. fullstop. Still, it might be unavoidable
from a commercial point of view. In that case, you should avoid being
involved in the project and let the marketing dept have their fun on
their own.
There's a lot of pleasantly paid jobs that won't kill your nerves on
this planet. Whatever you say now *you* will be responsible for it. So
keep away from suicidal attempts.
Java *may* properly work (but it will never work half as fast as PHP
will) but you are not going to find an adequate number of skilled
resources to make that happen.
And when your unproper underpaid resources will turn your java soup into
a slw boiling mess, guess who will pay for that? Got a mirror home? :)
I saw a project based on IBM San Francisco last ONE YEAR before being
thrown out of the window (along with its manager). The best result of
the project was in that it could query a table of 500 rows in only... 45
seconds. New olympic record.
And no, I was not the manager. My spider sense told me to keep well away
from it :)
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RE: [PHP] PHP vs. Java
[snip] I'm being asked you evaluate a fairly complex web project using the MS SQL Server 2000 back-end. A large application will be built, involving lots of technical and financial information from multiple sources and types of sources input daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Reports will also be run daily, weekly, monthly, etc., against this data. All the data including input, views and reports has to work well with a standard web browser client, although some of the reports will be emailed to clients who use Blackberry PDAs. I'd rather take more time with the specifics before committing to a single technology but the client is asking which technology we'd propose before they award the job. At this point I'm leaning towards PHP as the solution (although to CIOs, I'm sure 'Java' is still a sexier word than 'PHP'), but I'd like to ask for general opinions on the value of PHP vs. Java (specifically Apache Struts-type J2EE applications) for this kind of web-enabled application. [/snip] I am not going to go at this from a JAVA vs. PHP viewpoint as each have strengths in certain applications. What I will do is evangelize about PHP for the application you describe. We regularly use PHP for Enterprise Level applications for a number of reasons including development time, application speed, modularity, cross-platform stability, usability in many situations (for instance, we have many PHP functions that run as standalone scripts or in conjunction with other shell scripting languages that can be called from timed events, such as those found in CRON jobs and other command line executions). I will give you an instance; Retrieve files from remote location each day, Extract needed files each day, Parse files, Import parsed files into database, Do multiple reports in multiple versions (Excel, HTML, PDF, etc), Request needed files from database, Put those files into usable form for billing application, Forward those files to the appropriate location for billing. Eventually we will move our entire billing, customer service, aging and collection information to a PHP application(s) running in a set of web-interfaces...replacing legacy software, some of which still runs as a DOS application. PHP is a terrific solution for developing such a large scale application as modules can be added to the application either singularly or in groups to add needed functionality to the overall application without compromising other modules utilizing the same data. We receive millions of records each week that are handled by the PHP applications, it has the needed horsepower. From a testing and approval standpoint it allows the cycle to be shortened from conception to production, a very good thing. Errors can be quickly found and corrected while new functionality does not require rewriting tons of code. If you plan carefully each module can remain independent enough from other modules, allowing modules to be added or depricated without affect the performance of other modules. Sound database planning is also key to this. As for the PDA's PHP plays well with XSLT, CSS, and any other formatting tool that you can think of to deliver reports. The same report data can be formatted by PHP using these tools for many different interfaces (again, modularity). PHP, to my way of thinking, is easier to maintain for others who may have to come in contact with your code after you have gone down the road to another project. It is well documented and features tons of extensions that can be added to the core for increased functionality (i.e. http://www.phpclasses.org/mirrors.html?page=%2Findex.html). And finally, you can use JAVA with PHP should the need arise, therefore not locking yourself into a particualr technology and allowing you to flex the strengths of appropriate technologies for appropriate tasks. My .02¢ Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP vs. Java
I agree with the other reply to your question. My thoughts could be summarized as follows: - Java solution would be more expensive and involved to build and maintain. - PHP would be cheaper and quicker to build and maintain. - Java would require more resources on your server. - PHP is light weight and fast. - Java is a mature OO language. So, if designed properly, would be easier to modify and/or extend functionality. - In my opinion, PHP is not a mature OO language. It might get there sometime in the future. However, PHP is very well suited for the goals it was designed for. My choice would be Java. (Keep in mind that it will be easier to sell Java to the corporate guys. Some executives shy away from open source.) Good luck!!! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm being asked you evaluate a fairly complex web project using the MS SQL Server 2000 back-end. A large application will be built, involving lots of technical and financial information from multiple sources and types of sources input daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Reports will also be run daily, weekly, monthly, etc., against this data. All the data including input, views and reports has to work well with a standard web browser client, although some of the reports will be emailed to clients who use Blackberry PDAs. I'd rather take more time with the specifics before committing to a single technology but the client is asking which technology we'd propose before they award the job. At this point I'm leaning towards PHP as the solution (although to CIOs, I'm sure 'Java' is still a sexier word than 'PHP'), but I'd like to ask for general opinions on the value of PHP vs. Java (specifically Apache Struts-type J2EE applications) for this kind of web-enabled application. Thanks very much in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
