Re: Re: usage poll on php.net

You're preaching to the choir. :) I agree, PHP is a great language.. Some people are always going to be mis-informed (hopefully marketing will help minimize the number :-). One person I know thought that PHP was originally created by Microsoft. -Sterling > PHP, in my opinion, is one of the least-marketed languages in the > world. Nobody, but *NOBODY* stood behind it, unlike Perl, that has > everyone and their mother standing behind it (O'Reilly and Microsoft, to > name two). Other than the few expo's Zend's been promoting PHP in the last > year, and Rasmus's sessions in various expo's, PHP got no marketing whatsoever. > > PHP got to where it is today purely by excelling at its job. > > Zeev > > At 00:29 27/08/2000, Zak Greant wrote: > > > According to a discussion on bootstrap (Perl6 list) PHP is an inferior > > > language with very good marketing :-). > > > >Statements like that actually cause my brain to lock up from the sheer > >volume of semi-informed opinions suddenly clamoring to be typed onto the > >page. :) > > > >I would hardly say that PHP has been marketed to its current popularity. > > - PHP is a well-documented and supported language with a fairly gentle > >learning curve. > > - It provides an excellent starting point for non-programmers who *need* to > >learn how to program. > > - Working developers are able to spend more time writing code and less time > >jumping through syntactic and idiomatic hoops. > > - It has a very rapid development cycle that is driven by user needs. > > > >These factors, not any artificial stimulation of consumer desires are the > >driving factors in PHP's growth. > > > > - Zak > > > > > >-- > >PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List > ><http://www.php.net/> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ >