From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T06:01:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

Aredridel wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:42:04AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>> 4) PHP was designed to do one job and is great with this.  Ruby is a
>> general purpose language, that is good in a lot of places and
>> unperfect in all.
> 
> PHP is also buggier than a swamp in the midwest US.

Oh yes, that's true. I once tried to use non-blocking sockets... they
should be called non-working sockets, because they didn't work in both
the windows and the linux version.

> PHP was less designed than just kludged together.

The language itself is VERY ugly, this doesn't need a discussion, and
you could fill a book with the history of security problems in PHP.

> Building a ruby "Standard Library" of all this is, I think, the way to
> go. 

Full ack.

> A very bazaar approach would work, I think:  let the "reigning"
> module developers maintain their modules as part of the library -- I
> would love to see REXML included, along with Ruby-Mysql,
> Ruby-Postgres, DBI would be a must, and at least one graphics
> processing library.

FXRuby seems to be another good candidate.

Andreas

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