On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:43 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 10:24 AM -0400 3/23/09, Robert Cummings wrote: > >> >> My point is, just because new techniques and technoloigies >> come out, is in no way a boundary condition on an existing technology's >> lifespan or efficacy in any particular environment. The deprecation of >> usefulness of any technology is based on many more variables than >> "Jquery - The New Game just began". Jquery runs in the browser, it will >> never replace server side data acquisition, caching, and manipulation. >> It will merely augment. Moreover, it is completely useless when >> JavaScript is disabled. Your post also made the assumption that PHP is >> used for web sites only. Many people are using it for other tasks too. >> Popularity is also not a useful metric of the demise of a language. It >> may just be that less people are familiar with JQuery and so there are >> more questions whereas PHP has been around long enough that the bulk of >> people interested in it have a good enough foundation in it that they >> don't need to ask questions. >> >> Cheers, >> Rob. >> > > Rob: > > All good and excellent points. > > However, I have heard of "new" javascript being run server-side. What's the > likelihood of that "catching on" and surpassing php? > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Tedd, JS has been running on MS servers for a long time. It was always viewes as an acceptable replacement for vbscript. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
