From: james_b@...
Date: 2003-05-05T22:30:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

> (1) PHP were the first to get popular
> (2) PHP comes with a huge library, and tightly integrated with Linux/Apache 
> (have anyone already heard about LAMP? Linux Apache MySQL and PHP).

The P also refers to Perl and Python; LAMR hasn't the same ring.


> (3) PHP manipulates databases just like anything else! This is much important 
> for web-programming
> (4) They maintain a standard source for information (their on-line manual)


There's the pick-axe book, and ruby-doc.org offers something akin to 
php.net's URL-based method look-up:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/find/pickaxe/string
http://www.ruby-doc.org/find/pickaxe/array

(Though I'm thinking now that that the base URL up to the search term
could be clearer or more intuitive.)




> 
> If we want, some day, to overpass Ruby firstly we should create a know-it-all 
> source for information (just like php manual). It's easy to learn PHP since 
> either beginners or wizards always can refer to php manual since it have 
> everything.

A goal of the Ruby Documentation Project; volunteers welcome!



James