From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-22T01:06:21+09:00
Subject: Re: rubys web performance

Thomas Fini Hansen wrote:
> And while we're talking about lines.. I had to fix the code in
> SquirrelMail that encodes the headers when there's non-ASCII
> characters in it. Thought that it would be easy as I'd done my own in
> Ruby for another project and it was just 7 lines of code. Imagine my
> surprise when I found out that it was 118 lines of PHP code. About 10
> was 'extra' code for stuff related to SquirrelMail.
> 
> I couldn't resist, first I tried rewriting the function to exec
> Ruby. Slow as hell, but only 19 lines. Then I ported my Ruby function
> as well as I could and it ended up at 32 lines. So even if we subtract
> the 10 lines, it's still the difference between 7 and 22 lines.

I know the feeling :-) Sometimes I curse while coding in PHP. Though it 
does the job, PHP is really an ugly, half-baked, non-designed language. 
Even Perl looks beautiful when I'm stuck with PHP. Plus they break 
things (and change defaults!) between releases. IMO PHP is really an 
undependable tool for large projects.

-- 
dave