On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:52 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On 8/7/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, the numbers really show Python and Ruby winning... NOT *LOL*. > > You mean how both Ruby and Python list serv traffic is way up while > PHP's is way down?
Way up and way down are trends. Trends may be fads or they may be sustained cultural changes. Time will tell, but it certainly hasn't told yet. I hardly consider list serv traffic an indicator of language superiority... especially when high traffic may be an indicator of bugs. > Even the PHP dev list is really slowed the past > year or so.. just some guy named Richard bothering them about random > stuff every once in a while, that's about it. Oh, and the occasional > namespace discussion. To namespace or not to namespace, who really > cares. Those who discuss it *lol*. > But to clarify the obvious for those without their own clue bat with > which to beat one's self, I was referring to language quality with > regard to OO. PHP is a cluster-fuck in comparison to pretty much > anything out there.. except maybe Perl's OO. And go look at PHP SPL, > and tell me that's not Java by another name. I dunno, I don't use it. Haven't found a need for it yet. > PHP is the absolute worst language to do any sort of OO programming in. That's a very subjective statement. I've had no trouble writing OOP since PHP3. I like references in PHP4, and it's nice that PHP5 uses automatic references when assigning objects by value. But that's just cake icing. OOP is a programming style, not necessarily a language construct. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
