[snip] I had high hopes for it when I started down the path, and was glad to find this list thinking that it would be a great resource for using PHP to help solve BUSINESS issues but basically 80% of the questions have nothing to do with BUSINESS issues but "how do I do X" questions which IMO should NOT be necessary for a true BUSINESS programming language. Those that aren't in the 80% are "Tricks/hacks", something to show off and do not represent a solution to actually make PHP a language that can solve real world problems. I'll keep it in my toolbox for the simple, quick way to get something to the inter/intranet but other than that it's not ever going to be a major player in Real World business solutions. Good Lick ALL.... [/snip] I love sweeping generalizations. So I must ask, are C++, SQL, Fortran, LiSP et.al., strategic BUSINESS languages? Can you put your BUSINESS logic into Visual Studio or any other IDE and have it produce workable code? (Clarion tried and failed miserably.) What is a strategic BUSINESS language? Is it a 4GL or 5GL language? Would we call it sBl? Are you using an sBl now? What is it? How does it solve BUSINESS issues? PHP solves real-world problems every day in thousands of businesses across the globe, in my business alone I can count dozens of real-world issues that are handled by PHP every hour of every day. Like any other language properly handled it can be used to build mission-critical enterprise level business solutions. BTW, I'll bet that you never return to have a meaningful discussion on the topic. Would be an interesting discussion and might bear some valuable fruit, but you will just lurk to see what responses come to your statements and probably smirk at those with whom you perceive to have less than your superior, if somewhat short-sided, intellect. Provide just one real-world business problem example and I am sure that you will see that this group can apply PHP to format a solution to that problem. Since you're lurking and will likely not respond I will pose a real-world BUSINESS problem and you can watch this group arrive at a solution, likely in a number of ways.... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
