From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T21:03:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby?


On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Alex Young wrote:

> Ilan Berci wrote:
>> Please site an example where you found PHP easier than rails.
> mv index.php ~/public_html
>
> Sorry, but it's true.  Deployment of PHP is trivial, deployment of  
> Ruby isn't.  That's one big reason why it's as popular as it is.
>
>
If by deployment of php, you mean using php in web development is  
trivial, yes it's true.
If by deployment of php, you mean installing and configuring a php  
interpreter is trivial, it is not true at all. It's quite a task.
All Apache modules can be a pain.