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

date posted 19th November 2007 12:15

Ben Moxon wrote:
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> Mark Pawelek wrote:
>> only death threats would get me to code in Perl.

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> Now I've got the hang of it a bit it's actually a lot better than you
> would expect. I would certainly choose it over PHP for web dev.
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> It doesn't behave in ways that are obvious or easy to get used to, but
> when you do get the hang of contexts and it's other little quirks it's
> powerful and ubiquitous.
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Done c 1987ish, done perl 1998 ish, done php 2000ish,

Done various other stupid things like vbscript and asp.

First I wouldn't use a Micro$oft server - unless you paid me.

If you really want scalable - use c,
or nearly as scalable perl,
or If you just want normal that can be tuned if you need to, PHP.


Efficiency and therefore scaleability comes from being closer to the
machine. And relative "native-ness".

In terms if the Wikipedia critique - If you understand the principles
underlying variables, ie scoping, arrays, type conversions, etc, and how
the language is interpreted. PHP is a perfectly fine way of coding the
front end of a website.

OK It is does leave me with the feeling of being a bit quick and dirty
sometimes, and in the hands of an ameteur it may well be too easy to
make a mess. but it needed't be that way.

I personaaly remember writing quick and dirty c programs and I enjoyed
the way that you could abuse the language and get away with it, (as
long as you knew exactly what you were doing).


just my 2p

Carrie