From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2005-04-20T10:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby good for web applications?

PHP:
- C-like syntax but not comparable to C
- very simple to get into
- very easy to learn if you ever did C/C++/Pascal
- does not force you to go OO or code well, happens fast to write ugly crappy code
- very good documentation, documented function libary, comments, multilingual, searchable
- fast execution (even yahoo uses it afaik)
- function based libary which you have too lookup a lot
- is preinstalled on many webhosts (a great bonus if you want to write tools for everyone, and a big problem I have got with ruby :<)

Comparisons:
- would always prefer it to perl (it looks cleaner)
- if I could code ruby or python better a lot I'd not consider php at all