From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T08:25:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:12:50AM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:52:56AM +0900, E F van de Laar wrote:
> > Just wanted to mention that in all the replies so far no one has
> > mentioned Java. Applications servers built on J2EE and running Servlets
> > are on the rise and fast.
> 
> I would disagree there - I have never seen *any* Java application which is
> fast! :-P

[snip]

Agreed.  I usually end up waiting for pages ending in .jhtml.. could be
worse, though.

> Seems like you get the worst of all worlds with Java: slow execution speed,
> the inconvenience of compilation, next to no type safety (see discussions
> passim), and subtle dependencies on the exact version of Java VM *as well*
> as on the underlying host OS.

Not really a problem on the server side:  you throw hardware at it once,
and the platform doesn't shift.

Ari