Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed

Eric Butera wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: >> I think that's at best an example of someone having chosen the wrong >> tool. I can easily appreciate the frustration. My own rule-of-thumb >> - scripts are for small things and rapid prototyping. Once when a >> script (regardless of language) grows towards 1000 lines, start >> thinking about >> writing it in C (or whatever else is appropriate). I know of too >> many situations where thousands of lines of script code have turned >> into maintenance nightmares. > > Sorry to deviate from the thread, but I wanted to talk about this > point for a second. Are you serious? Do you write php extensions for > every app and have tons of them on your server? Yes, I am serious, and no, I don't write php extensions etc. I don't write many web apps anyway. I do use PHP quite a bit for command line stuff, in fact for >95% of my scripts. /Per Jessen, Zürich