Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
On Friday 25. July 2008, Christophe wrote:
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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.
Seems you never used a decent template engine, such as TAL http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/tal-guide.html Which really is "code by example" instead of intermixing language constructs with HTML which is incredibly hard to maintain.
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.
Most if not all other languages which are used for the web do have those ways, which does not mean its recommended to do so.
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
Which is for sure very performant ;)
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.
And hope that you arent bitten by nasty bugs in the language implementation or your security configuration of it :-) Ok, enough PHP bashing. Sun is shining here and so I invite everybody to enjoy the weekend :-) T.
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