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I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool. PHP is truly a defining technology of our age. For all the tongue-in-cheekiness of my comment, it’s a ma

I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool. PHP is truly a defining technology of our age. For all the tongue-in-cheekiness of my comment, it’s a matter of fact that several giant web properties were built with PHP and have had irrefutable global impact.

waheoo 6y ago
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- gorgoiler 6y ago
  Yes, I suppose, but I meant more in terms of how they have established themselves as brands rather than the obvious ongoing development. Like a well known hospital, or casino: big static frontage, always remodeling. (In addition to being like a building, Facebook is also like a chair.)
  - lugged 6y ago
    What about WordPress? Aren't large, new sites being built on top of it every day?
omarchowdhury 6y ago
Other than Facebook, who are they?
- gorgoiler 6y ago
  Wikipedia Ok, well apart from Facebook and Wikipedia, what have the PHP team ever done for us? Wordpress Ok, well apart from Facebook, Wikipedia and Wordpress... — After M. Python
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  Yahoo moved from an internal C-style template tool to PHP for a lot of front-end pages back in the day. Wordpress is PHP, which is over 20% of the web. I'd say most web sites (millions) in the period between Web 1.0 and early 2.0 were PHP. The historical reason for the transition from Perl to PHP was that PHP had a standard library with 3,000 functions and was fast enough, while Perl users needed to install CPAN modules, a problem in shared hosting, and mod_perl is very fast but is not intended for shared hosting.
- captn3m0 6y ago
  Wordpress.
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    it's difficult for me to link PHP as important in wordpress success
    - captn3m0 6y ago
      Having it easily installable on shared servers everywhere was a big reason behind its success.
      - agumonkey 6y ago
        this is a very faint (but true) reason, as in it's not why it helped people make wordpress in the first place
    - stanmancan 6y ago
      Can you name a business/site/project that was successful because of the language it was written in?
      - agumonkey 6y ago
        according to pg viaweb was one I can also think of nichimen mirai which was also 10 years ahead of the competition in terms of ergonomics and features and was based on symbolics S-graphics system (and I kinda believe most of the value in mirai was due to the lisp broader paradigm, you could clearly see how limited most programs were at the time, exception being maybe prisms/houdini [which was probably C based though:)]) some people also quote apl or prolog to be an extensive reason on why their product exists or has an edge
pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
> I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool. It would lint every appearance of a ‘<?php’ token with the message ‘you wrote your code in a crappy language’.

waheoo 6y ago

*are

gorgoiler 6y ago
Yes, I suppose, but I meant more in terms of how they have established themselves as brands rather than the obvious ongoing development. Like a well known hospital, or casino: big static frontage, always remodeling. (In addition to being like a building, Facebook is also like a chair.)
- lugged 6y ago
  What about WordPress? Aren't large, new sites being built on top of it every day?

omarchowdhury 6y ago

Other than Facebook, who are they?

gorgoiler 6y ago
Wikipedia Ok, well apart from Facebook and Wikipedia, what have the PHP team ever done for us? Wordpress Ok, well apart from Facebook, Wikipedia and Wordpress... — After M. Python
redis_mlc 6y ago
Yahoo moved from an internal C-style template tool to PHP for a lot of front-end pages back in the day. Wordpress is PHP, which is over 20% of the web. I'd say most web sites (millions) in the period between Web 1.0 and early 2.0 were PHP. The historical reason for the transition from Perl to PHP was that PHP had a standard library with 3,000 functions and was fast enough, while Perl users needed to install CPAN modules, a problem in shared hosting, and mod_perl is very fast but is not intended for shared hosting.
captn3m0 6y ago
Wordpress.
- agumonkey 6y ago
  it's difficult for me to link PHP as important in wordpress success
  - captn3m0 6y ago
    Having it easily installable on shared servers everywhere was a big reason behind its success.
    - agumonkey 6y ago
      this is a very faint (but true) reason, as in it's not why it helped people make wordpress in the first place
  - stanmancan 6y ago
    Can you name a business/site/project that was successful because of the language it was written in?
    - agumonkey 6y ago
      according to pg viaweb was one I can also think of nichimen mirai which was also 10 years ahead of the competition in terms of ergonomics and features and was based on symbolics S-graphics system (and I kinda believe most of the value in mirai was due to the lisp broader paradigm, you could clearly see how limited most programs were at the time, exception being maybe prisms/houdini [which was probably C based though:)]) some people also quote apl or prolog to be an extensive reason on why their product exists or has an edge

pwdisswordfish2 6y ago

> I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool. It would lint every appearance of a ‘<?php’ token with the message ‘you wrote your code in a crappy language’.