Comments on: The Dark Horse http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/ AAaaaaahhhhrrrrrrr! Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:13:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Paul Houle http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-118 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:33:19 +0000 http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-118 <p>Hell yeah.</p> <p>PHP is the Visual Basic of the web. It's a terrible language in a lot of ways, but it bundles 95% of what you need to make web sites in one simple package that a complete idiot can install on any web server in minutes -- and, unlike, say, Cold Fusion, no BS about software licensing.</p> <p>This enables software reuse on the web -- people can aim software at a standard configuration and expect it to install on ordinary desktop machines, $8.99 /month mass hosting facilities, or the latest 4-way Opteron on monster. You can deploy on Linux, Windows or even Solaris.</p> <p>Java has wonderful (and terrible) frameworks and Perl has CPAN, but to put together a comfortable environment for web programming in either of those languages you'll need to install ten different add-on packages, and every software system out there will pick a different ten.</p> <p>Three years ago you couldn't pick up high-quality software to run a web site, but now you can, and PHP is the lingua franca that made it possible.</p> Hell yeah.

PHP is the Visual Basic of the web. It’s a terrible language in a lot of ways, but it bundles 95% of what you need to make web sites in one simple package that a complete idiot can install on any web server in minutes — and, unlike, say, Cold Fusion, no BS about software licensing.

This enables software reuse on the web — people can aim software at a standard configuration and expect it to install on ordinary desktop machines, $8.99 /month mass hosting facilities, or the latest 4-way Opteron on monster. You can deploy on Linux, Windows or even Solaris.

Java has wonderful (and terrible) frameworks and Perl has CPAN, but to put together a comfortable environment for web programming in either of those languages you’ll need to install ten different add-on packages, and every software system out there will pick a different ten.

Three years ago you couldn’t pick up high-quality software to run a web site, but now you can, and PHP is the lingua franca that made it possible.

]]> by: Ken Pratt http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-114 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:15:24 +0000 http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-114 <p>FYI, a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22microsoft+.net%22" rel="nofollow">search for "microsoft .net"</a> yields 3,180,000 results, and a <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/%22microsoft%20.net%22" rel="nofollow">search on Technorati</a> yields only 5,414 posts.</p> FYI, a search for “microsoft .net” yields 3,180,000 results, and a search on Technorati yields only 5,414 posts.

]]> by: Patrice http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-113 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:46:28 +0000 http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/the-dark-horse/#comment-113 <p>You may want to revise the number of results for the .Net searches. The dot is not included in the search and "net" has a much wider meaning than just ".Net". I guess that the correct number of .Net results is even lower than the Java ones.</p> You may want to revise the number of results for the .Net searches. The dot is not included in the search and “net” has a much wider meaning than just “.Net”. I guess that the correct number of .Net results is even lower than the Java ones.

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