On 01/21/2015 04:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> > wrote: >> On 2015-01-21, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> In 2009, Robert Martin gave a talk at RailsConf titled "What Killed >>> Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby". >> >> But does he answer the more important question "and can we use it to >> kill PHP?". > > PHP won't die so long as there are people willing to apologize for its > every flaw and defend it on the basis that huge sites X, Y, and Z all > use it. But we don't need it to die. All we need is for Python to > live, and we can ignore PHP and write Unicode-aware web sites with > simple, trustworthy entry points, and not worry about the rest.
To be fair, PHP has come a long way in the last few years and, I hear, there's movements within the community to make it better. Namespaces were a bit deal as were a few other things. Personally, while I am LOVING Python, I'd be sad to see PHP die. It's got a lot of potential if the community can get its crap together and take off the ruby coloured glasses. Anthony -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
