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

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > Rene Veerman wrote: >> >> php is not a hammer, its a programming language. > > It's hard to discuss anything with someone who doesn't comprehend a > metaphor. haha. "comprehend". you mean "accept". that metaphor is stretched to breaking point as far as i'm concerned. > >> one that i feel needs to stay ahead of the computing trend if it is to >> be considered a language for large scale applications. > > Personification of PHP doesn't make your argument any more salient. PHP > isn't trying to stay ahead of anything. People are using it to solve > problems, not to meet some phantom ideal of a "computing trend" threshold. > >> but you nay-sayers here have convinced me; i'll be shopping for >> another language with which to serve my applications and the weboutput >> they produce.. >> >> thanks for opening my eyes and telling to abandon ship in time. > > Obviously we didn't open your eyes. > Well excuse me for not dumping 50-100k lines of my own cms code instantly now that i realize that in order to scale it, i could really use features like threading and shared memory.