Re: [2]: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

Daniel Lorch wrote: > it would be nice to see PHP w and w/o ZEND competing against each > other. Zend what? I'd like to see it with/without ZendAccelerator. > absolutely *no* reasonable > programmer will ever use PHP to calculate prime numbers or fractals > (maybe with mathematical extensions, but not with raw PHP code). Perl and the like are used a lot in bio-informatics, and they are scripting-languages. Even in CPU-intensive areas, ease of development can be important. > face it: PHP is "just" a layouting engine. it collects data from > different sources, gives it the final polish (formatting) and outputs > it. nothing more. and YES it's a very feature-rich layouting engine > and an excellent one, too. PHP is a general-purpose language aimed at web-applications. That's more than just layout. A lot more. regards Wagner -- Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"