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The advantage is that this guy, who otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish his goals, did. He did because PHP was accessible. And till other languages

The advantage is that this guy, who otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish his goals, did. He did because PHP was accessible. And till other languages are as dead-simple to accomplish small-to-medium tasks, PHP will continue to have fans such as the OP.

RageKit 14y ago
imho ruby is simpler than php.
- bennylope 14y ago
  Easier on eyes, more powerful? Surely. But can you just drop .erb files into a directory and turn on mod_ruby? That's the allure of PHP for so many.
  - pbiggar 14y ago
    No, but you can just run `rails new` and `git push heroku`, which is about as easy as using shared hosting.
    - joesb 14y ago
      Shared hosting is all over the world, most of them provide PHP+20GB for 1/10 the cost of heroku+5MB.
      - pbiggar 14y ago
        Sure, but we aren't comparising pricing - we're looking at how easy it is to get started. You can go pretty far with Heroku free plans.
- JOfferijns 14y ago
  Accessible != Simple
  - RageKit 14y ago
    Well, php is more accessible than ruby. I don't care about the language war, i use whatever gets the things done
- 4qbomb 14y ago
  Says the guy that only knows ruby.
  - RageKit 14y ago
    Nope, i've done more php than ruby in my life, ad hominem is irrelevant you know ?