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PHP is very fast.. OO deficiencies have mostly been solved by 5.3. Your blanket generalizations will not get you anywhere.

• jrockway 18y ago
  PHP is very fast.. If by very fast you mean the second-slowest: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... I agree that it doesn't matter much. But why use a slow language with poor syntax when you could be using a fast language with beautiful syntax? (I won't go in to detail about how horrible PHP's object model is, or how it doesn't have lexically-scoped variables, or how it doesn't have closures or even anonymous functions, ... or a host of other features that most programmers have been enjoying for the last 30 years.)
  • danielrhodes 18y ago
    No question PHP is weak in some areas, although trying to compare languages is sometimes like trying to compare cats and dogs. Also, second slowest? Compared to what? And in what scope, and trying to solve what problem? Last I checked, there were more than 25 languages, and only a few of the ones listed there are suitable for the web.
    • jrockway 18y ago
      Which ones aren't suitable for the web? Maybe Fortran, but I know of people with successful production web apps in most of those languages; Perl, Ruby, Python, CL, OCaml, Haskell, Lua, C++, and Java.