Re: PHP's vision

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > layout with some logic. For many of those, PHP is / was the first > programming language they learned. I wonder if that's good or bad thing? :) > There are also a number of people for whom the above is not enough. > They strive for the possibilities the Java platform offers, without > being forced to develop in a closed-source environment. As I said > before, I really like Java as a language, but don't want to use the > Java platform for technical and non-technical reasons. I'm not that familiar with Java..so it would be nice to hear what Java offers that PHP doesn't? > If it were not for the "Community Experience" I get working with / on > PHP and the fact that I don't do programming for a living (yet), I > think I would've abandoned PHP a time ago. That "Community Experience" doesn't really exist anymore, IMHO. Or is it just because the IT bubble burst? :) > Like Shane, I believe that there's no contradiction in keeping PHP > as easy to use as it has been since its conception, while also > addressing the needs of the more advanced PHP developers. So what really ARE the needs of more advanced developers? (I'm starting to sound like a broken record now :) --Jani