Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed

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