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PHP gets websites built. But what use do I have for it if I want to make software? you know, something other than pumping ascii over a socket descriptor?
by mahmud 16y ago
PHP gets websites built. But what use do I have for it if I want to make software? you know, something other than pumping ascii over a socket descriptor?
- kenjackson 16y agoThe toolbelt of even the least experienced craftsman has more than a single tool.
- neckbeard 16y agoCareful, that's a form of heresy around these parts.
- xd 16y agoGive me an example of something you can't do in PHP. The language is turing complete .. your statement makes no sense.
- rbanffy 16y agoGiven the needed supporting technology, you can write a filesystem driver in PHP. With FUSE, you can. What we should be questioning is how pointless would such endeavor be. Like kenjackson pointed out (and, oddly, this time I agree with him ;-)), your toolbox should not be restricted to PHP, however Turing-complete it may be.
- bretthoerner 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
- TimJYoung 16y agoI think the issue is whether one would even want to attempt to develop certain types of software using languages and environments that were designed to be used in a specific way. PHP would certainly not be one's first choice for developing native Windows desktop applications, for example.
- dgouldin 16y agoThe kicker for me was discovering that Facebook's PHP shell (http://www.phpsh.org/ http://www.phpsh.org/) is in fact written in Python.