Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

Tommy Pham wrote: > 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.... Who was the idi... who hired someone who wasn't suited for the job? Tommy, that's a moot argument. You can't fit a square peg in a round hole. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.5°C)