Nathan Rixham wrote:

> point is..
> Java let's me easily do 70% of what I need to
> PHP let's me easily do 95% of what I need to
> 

I'm curious - can you list what the 25% are?

> If we could get that 5% added then PHP would be perfect, not only that
> but me and the rest of the team at work would be able to make our
> multi-million pound enterprise projects in PHP instead of java; as
> would so many others (that can't be a bad thing for PHP)

But why?  Why not use Java and J2EE and all that good stuff?  I'm not
much of a java fan myself, but you've got to give credit where credit
is due. 

> Additionally, rather sure you'd see a mass influx of people moving to
> php, and applications created for it - even down to design tools such
> as reverse and forward engineering between uml and php.
> 
> ack.. there's a tonne of amazing tools and frameworks for java, and
> I'm sure that a vast majority of them are possible because of this
> static typing (from orms to web service frameworks and all in between)
> - am I so bad for wanting that for php and my fellow devs?

No, you're not so bad :-) 

The point is - why not just use Java, when you really need the features?  


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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