On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:43 -0400, tedd 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? If I recall correctly Netscape originally developed JavaScript to run server side. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
