On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:00:13 Christophe Pettus wrote: > On Oct 31, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Mike Ramirez wrote: > > I do not understand why web developers who use php, still do. > > PHP has a large, and (perhaps more importantly) easy-to-find ecosystem > surrounding it. I think that Python's superiority as a language is > simply not open to debate, but if you are looking for "I need a > library that does <x>", PHP frequently has acceptable solutions closer > to hand. > > And, as with PostgreSQL vs MySQL, shared web hosting is very strongly > oriented around PHP, and that (until the relatively recent rise of > VPS) was the primary entry point for a lot of web developers. > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > x...@thebuild.com > >
It was a rhetorical question. Tho the same goes for MySQL. Why?
I do understand, I was there too watching and developing back in the early
2k's with php4 and first few versions of 5 helping clients cause I ran one of
those hosts. Sorry for not being specific about that. Truth is that we used
MySQL and PHP mainly because CPanel (and other virtual host control panels)
had the support built-in and made it easy for the users and less headaches on
us.
Mike
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