PHP

[Dylan McCall]

Seems like it to me.

Python is getting pretty good, though, with projects like Django out there
making it easy. Hate to say it, but I really hope PHP either starts fresh or
gets a complete alternative soon since it is, in my opinion, an awful
language to work with. It seems to incorporate the syntax, functions and use
cases of everything and anything out there, bundling it all into a single
horrendous blob of senseless design.

Particularly irksome of late is how my Google searches on GTK oddities
always lead in some way to PHP-GTK. Simply reading the two together leads me
nearly to self-suffocation as I gasp in a combination of shock, awe and
nausea. Every single time. By all means, integrate the web with desktop GUI
toolkits (really, I for one would love to see that happen for the sake of
accessibility, control and awesomeness!), but this is, horrifically, not the
goal of that project. No, the concept there is around the same kind of
abomination as it is to make an HTML / Javascript version of Quake. Have
these folks not heard of Python, C, C++ or any of the other languages PHP
borrows syntax / functions from, which are actually to some degree intended
for end-user stuff (as opposed to server-side scripting)? Can't they use
those, or is there some sick cult out there that enjoys having their syntax
do a 180 halfway through the same source file?

Okay, that's my PHP-dissing for the day. AJAX is getting rather popular as a
way to do things, and it seems to me that it encourages simpler, tidier and
more modular PHP with rather nice results. If you aren't too concerned about
accessibility or wide compatibility, it may be worth pondering. My
understanding is that the Dojo toolkit is quite good!

If you have the choice (eg: A forward-thinking web host that offers the
languages or provides sufficient access to your own server), then I highly
recommend either the Django framework or Ruby on Rails.

Bye,
-Dylan

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Richard Seguin <
richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:

> Is PHP still the main web scripting language being used out there or is
> it being replaced by something else?
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