Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 11:21

On 19/11/2007 11:52, Mark Pawelek wrote:
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> I admit to being wrong on PHP scaling - in my defence I plead prejudice. My
> prejudices against PHP relate to the overall design (or lack of it). See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Criticism - I'm not the only one who finds
> problems with it.
>

I'd be worried if the problems listed there were relevant with the
latest versions of PHP. A lot of the problems listed relate to ancient
versions of PHP that are several years old.

PHP has had it's problems in the past, but newer versions (ver 5
upwards) are a massive improvement.

Martin