Re: The future of PHP

<two-cents> Almost all modern technologies are the evolution of previous ones: C -> C++,Perl, PHP, Python; Basic -> QBasic -> VBasic/ASP; Even new languages like Rebol are based (in one way or another) to previous languages. Anyone could develop a parser/interpreter for any new language they could devise. Eventually each language develops it's own characteristics. </two-cents> "Gabe Da Silveira" <jiblet@visi.com> wrote in message news:jiblet-628E62.13144823082001@pb1.pair.com... > Let's not forget the ecosystem in which these different technologies > thrive. It's all based on who's paying whom to do what. The reality of > the situation is that the people in charge don't know (or care) about > all these different technologies. They may make some broad decisions > (linux vs win), but you can bet they often rely on individual techies to > help guide them to the solution they need. As technology advances, you > can bet the divide between management and development will only widen. > All that matters now is the end result. With the disparity in developer > skill, the difficulty in estimating development time accurately, and the > increase in processing power there's a lot of room for developers to > make their own decisions. > > In this kind of environment, there is a lot of room for different > programming languages. PHP has the benefits of lightning fast > development cycles. Java has the advantage of being a strict, modern, > fault-tolerant language that lends itself to well-written code. ASP has > advantage of MS 'programming for dummies'-style devlopment tools. Perl > has the advantage of its text processing abilities. C has the speed > advantage by staying barebones and relatively low level for a verbose > language. > > In order for one of these technologies to die, something has to come > along with all the advantages and no new disadvantages. Somehow I don't > see this happening to open-source projects like PHP, or MySQL. It's > much easier to improve them then to develop something better. I see it > much more likely that these projects could fork to encompass different > goals. > > > > > In article <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNCEEMHPAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>, > dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) wrote: > > > >He would see JSP at 19.9% and PHP at 11.2 and say that proves his point. > > > > And flash developers will claim that the only way to create a site is have > > the > > whole thing Flash and crap flying across the client screen all the time... > > Untill the modem access market drops below 50% of the users on the net... > > hard > > time convincing me that 100's of kb in Flash is worth it. > > > > He obviously is sold on JSP... let him sink with his ship. PHP isn't going > > anywhere anytime soon... not while *nix boxes are still the most stable > > performers for web. > > -- > __________________________________ > Gabe da Silveira, Web Designer > Twin Cities Student Unions > University of Minnesota > http://www.coffman.umn.edu > > wFone: (612)624-7270 > eMail: jiblet@visi.com > hPage: http://www.visi.com/~jiblet