From: Paul DuBois <paul@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T21:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

At 21:22 +0900 5/6/03, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>  >> 6) Rubies OO functionallity is not so important in CGI like scripts
>>>     (this means scripts that start with no internal variables other
>>>     then session variables).
>>>     This would only be an important point if you use an application
>>>     server, but there is none.
>
>>  Why would a CGI application benefit less from OO than other types of
>>  applications?
>
>Because a CGI script (or better any non application server like
>script) starts with zero data. It loads all data, processes them and
>outputs the data. With this constellation there is often not much to do
>so no need for a technical better solution.
>
>Okay if you refer to monster applications (for PHP) like PHPNuke or
>MySQL then you find that they could be written in 50% of the code when
>using good OO. But there are so less applications of this size
>(written - not used) that they don't count for PHP popularity.

If you're going to make statements like that, you must expect to be
called on it.  Specifically:  What is your evidence that 50% of MySQL
could be removed by recoding using OO?  What's the level of your
actual familiarity with the MySQL source code?