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PHP: Embedding your code in your HTML seemed like a bad idea It's a terrible idea, but it does have the advantage of giving you a good way to separating the wh
by michaelchisari 16y ago
PHP: Embedding your code in your HTML seemed like a bad idea
It's a terrible idea, but it does have the advantage of giving you a good way to separating the wheat from the chaff. Solid PHP programmers never (or very, very rarely) embed PHP code in HTML.
- mmaunder 16y agoYes, you're absolutely right and some of the greatest apps ever written are PHP apps e.g. Wordpress and Facebook. I should add, all the languages above are capable of creating the next Facebook. In the startup context, the most important thing is using what you are most productive in. Longer term you need to think about things like how hard it is to hire Ruby devs or how expensive C devs are or that you'll need 3.4 as many CPU's to run Ruby sequential tasks vs Perl (according to those benchmarks posted anyway). A word about benchmarks: The mostly don't matter unless you're at Facebook scale and trying to eek out another 3% profit margin or unless you're running a widget (or similar) business that relies on massive app volume for distribution with very thin margins. If you're a 2 person show writing a regular app like a dating site, classified ads site, etc, then by the time you're doing any kind of volume, you're going to be so massively profitable that you really won't care about these benchmarks. Also these days people and their time are way more expensive than hosting fees.