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 > :-)
