Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Well no. PHP is not a professional language because it has no really
design - and that has nothing to do with the fact it beeing a scripting
language. Its a bad scripting language. (Say namespaces for example,
confusing function interfaces, unicode flaws, missing usable frameworks,
silly type handling, quoting hell)
- What do you mean by confusing function interfaces and unicode flaws?
This whole discussion is about a language lawyer and a professional. The
reality is, professional programmers do use PHP. I would say probably
more than any other language out there.
Does that mean that PHP is a technically sound language? No.
Does that mean some of these professional programmers are smarter than
the language lawyers, because they can get their web apps done, quickly
and have a huge community backing them up? Yes.
Use what works for you, don't listen to others about what language to
code in.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
P.S. I don't particularly like PHP either, but our company website is
coded in it because no other language (for the web) could have done the
job at the same TCO.
PHP is easy and cheap to start, so there are lots of programmers using
it, and someone like you, or any other company, can take a cheap
programmer to do the work. Most of programmer use it with mysql, now
this is the question to answer....why?
Maybe there is something else that can be useful for PostgreSQL (this
list is about postgres right?).
Now, comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL is something that maybe does not
make sense....but the question is why most newbies go to MySQL and not
PostgreSQL and say that MySQL is faster, better, easier and so on than
pgsql....
Answer for this is a bit complex, more newbies howtos, more people
saying that is better and so on....
And I dont agree with that, but there is something I really think is
good about mysql installation and postgresql should take.....
You have 4 or 5 or 6 (I dont remember) examples in doc when you install
from package, or in contrib I think in source code.....so anyone with
just knowledge about his hardware and usage can tune it.
Why not put some examples with postgresql about that? for example for
OLTP with 2 GB RAM blah blah....
Just an idea
Best regards
Rodrigo
