How about 'throwing a hundred million dollars++ at engineering can do
wonders.' You could throw that at COBOL and probably get an insane
featureset.

Anyone who uses facebook as an example and is not currently employing
1000+ hard core developers in pursuit of a singular goal is being
somewhat of a dummy. Its just not comparable. They have scaled beyond
the language.

John-

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Andrus Adamchik
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It is actually pretty interesting in general if you are in business of 
> developing large websites in any language. On the topic of PHP the guy openly 
> says things like "PHP doesn't scale for large codebases", "PHP is not a very 
> fast language", etc. Remember, this is all coming from a senior Facebook 
> engineer. Still obviously it works for Facebook. So throwing more hardware 
> and using various clever caching and partitioning techniques can do wonders 
> :-)

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