Re: PHP a lightweight language?

> I'm interested in the proposition made recently on this list that PHP is > somehow a 'lightweight' language that some people don't take seriously. I 'lightweight' is good :-) PHP has less "clutter" than, say, Perl, where there are so many functions and overloaded symbols that no two Perl hackers can read each other's code. The PHP Dev team has religiously and unapologetically rejected many a "Feature Request" (like, a bazillion of them) for esoteric functions that would be really "cool" and about 5% of us would actually find useful. Thus, PHP is a relatively concise and lightweight language, comparatively-speaking. The relative merits of such a design philosophy are a rather long-winded and subjective discussion, to say the least, that has occurred in this list quite a few times. You may want to examine threads comparing PHP and Perl or possibly PHP and Java for the more on-target explanations. At a certain point, though, the discussion is not very productive -- If you've tried XXX and PHP and you like XXX better, well, use XXX. It's kind of like arguing whether it's better to use a Swiss Army knife, safety scissors, or a butcher knife to chop vegetables: It kinda depends on the situation and who's doing the chopping. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm