Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tommy Pham wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Tommy Pham wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I find funny is that one of opponents of PHP threads earlier
>>>> mentioned that how silly it would be to be using C in a web app.
>>>> Now I hear people mentioning C when they need "productivity" or
>>>> "speed"...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think I was the one to mention the latter, but as I started out
>>> saying, and as others have said too, it's about the right tool for
>>> the right job.  When choosing a tool, there are a number of factors
>>> to consider - developer productivity, available skills, future
>>> maintenance, performance, scalability, portability, parallelism,
>>> performance etcetera.
>>>
>>
>> Funny you should mention all that.  Let's say that you're longer with
>> that company, either by direct employment or contract consultant.
>> You've implemented C because you need 'thread'.  Now your replacement
>> comes in and has no clue about C even though your replacement is a PHP
>> guru.  How much headache is maintenance gonna be?  Scalability?
>> Portability? wow....
>
> Who was the idi... who hired someone who wasn't suited for the job?
> Tommy, that's a moot argument.  You can't fit a square peg in a round
> hole.
>
>
>
> --
> Per Jessen, Zürich (12.5°C)
>
>

Suited for the job?  You mean introduce more complexity to a problem
that what could be avoided to begin with if PHP has thread support?
hmmm....

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