Re: PHP vs JAVA

Sebastian Krebs wrote:

1. He's not my teacher -- he is a fellow teacher AND a smart one! He knows

the difference between Java and JavaScript. OKOK, sorry -_- But @topic: For example see http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Really: Java is a good and mature language, but it is not a web-language. 2. In life, you will find that popularity (often over "which is best") is the main reason why things prosper.

I think he is simply wrong in his interpretation of the facts. The number of websites powered by PHP vastly exceeds Java and every other language http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all Says it all! But you would never use PHP for a distributed application, and then http://www.langpop.com/ comes into play when the fight is between Java and C/C++ and personally I'm happier with C/C++ than Java even on Android. But even though you would not use PHP for distributed applications, it still gets a good 4th in that chart as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk