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

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > 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) > > Suited for the job? You mean introduce more complexity to a problem that what could be avoided to begin with if PHP has thread support? hmmm....