Re: The future of PHP

At 15:19 29-08-01, Alexander Skwar wrote:

So sprach »Manuel Lemos« am 2001-08-28 um 23:21:54 -0300 : Man, give it some time! How long was it since Andrei released PHP-GTK? How old is PHP now? Exactly. And also Perl wasn't made to create GUI apps, was it? But look how many Perl GUI apps there are out there now.

I've yet to see one, which doesn't come to say that they don't exist (you named a couple) - but does come to say that Perl did not succeed at becoming a serious contended in the GUI market. As I told Manuel, the issue isn't *time*, but *timing*. If PHP's goal was to become a serious contended in the GUI app market (which it was not) - it long missed this opportunity. GUI applications of PHP are cool, can be very useful, especially to people who already know PHP. However, assuming that it would ever catch a significant share of the GUI market is naive, IMHO. Zeev