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Give me an example of something you can't do in PHP. The language is turing complete .. your statement makes no sense.

• rbanffy 16y ago
  Given 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.
  • arethuza 16y ago
    I wonder if you could write FUSE in PHP...
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      You would need to extend PHP somehow and make the kernel and its data structures visible. But I have no intention of even dedicating one minute to such thoughts
• bretthoerner 16y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
• TimJYoung 16y ago
  I 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.