On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Leif B. Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
For me I came from a C background, with bits of Pascal, and old Line numbered BASIC (Hey, it's all we had on our govt spec Burroughs systems in 1985). the reason I picked php back in the day was that it was a lot like C, a little like perl (the parts I like) and it had a small enough memory footprint I could run a decent server with pgsql 6.5.3, apache 1.3.4 and php 3.0.5 on a 64 Meg RAM P-100 when everything else I'd tried just crashed and burned or ground to a halt on that poor little machine. Years later and we build php servers with 8 Gigs ram, use memcached, and other cool tricks to make them even faster. But for all the "bad engineering" in php's code base, I've never had a problem building a stable server with it. As long as I left out any mysql libs. :) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
