Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?
| From: | Tommy Pham | Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:28:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading? | ||
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
> Tommy Pham wrote:
>
>> What I find funny is that one of opponents of PHP threads earlier
>> mentioned that how silly it would be to be using C in a web app. Now
>> I hear people mentioning C when they need "productivity" or "speed"...
>>
>
> I think I was the one to mention the latter, but as I started out
> saying, and as others have said too, it's about the right tool for the
> right job. When choosing a tool, there are a number of factors to
> consider - developer productivity, available skills, future
> maintenance, performance, scalability, portability, parallelism,
> performance etcetera.
>
Funny you should mention all that. Let's say that you're longer with
that company, either by direct employment or contract consultant.
You've implemented C because you need 'thread'. Now your replacement
comes in and has no clue about C even though your replacement is a PHP
guru. How much headache is maintenance gonna be? Scalability?
Portability? wow....
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