On Friday 25. July 2008, Christophe wrote: >Most developers don't make deep informed decisions about PHP vs other >languages. They use it because everyone else is, there is a huge >ecosystem of support around it, it's easy to get something flopping >around on the table quickly, and they know *for sure* that they can >host it anywhere. Which, really, are not terrible reasons to pick a >development environment.
My 2 cents: The prime reason for the popularity of PHP is probably the very gentle learning curve. You can start with a static HTML page, and introduce a few PHP snippets to show dynamic content. For us self-taught people, that means that you get instant results with minimal work. If any language want to compete with PHP in popularity, I believe that it must be just as easy to mingle with HTML. $DEITY, I would love to be able to include Perl code in a HTML page inside a pair of <?pl and ?> tags. Now, I don't write PHP scripts like that anymore. I like to have every single character served as HTML to be generated by a function. And I realize that Perl would do that even better than PHP. But as I have become quite proficient with PHP, I tend to keep using that. It surely does the job. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 Me And My Database: http://solumslekt.org/blog/ My Jazz Jukebox: http://www.last.fm/user/leifbk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
