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PHP Article Commentary by David Hickenbotham
It is nice to see news organizations starting to get wind of the fact that scripting languages are being used widely on the Internet, especially PHP.
http://news.com.com/Grassroots+computing+languages+hit+the+big+time/2100-1007_3-5705448.html
I find it slightly humorous that it says that serious programmers once considered scripting languages toys. I’ll admit that among academia, scripting languages still aren’t getting their fair shake. (I’m pretty sure that my Alma Mater still has no classes that use scripting languages). I am also sure, however, that most programmers use scripting languages a great deal, whether it is writing a bash script for a CRON job to run or using PHP or Perl for web development. They don’t consider them as toys.
With that said, though, I do think scripting languages are really emerging as the de facto way of web development. Writing CGI’s in C++ or Servlets in Java is just plain dumb for most implementations (though they have some individual uses of which I certainly approve).
Why spend a ton of time creating a whole bunch of objects and instances of objects when a few lines of PHP would accomplish the same thing?
My time is money.
The speed difference for most web apps is negligible because there just isn’t enough processing on a lot of the PHP pages out there to be worth rewriting the sucker in C++. And if it is worth it, PHP provides a way of importing C++ execution right into the PHP to be run as a PHP function (but that’s a story for another day).
I say, “Long Live, PHP and scripting languages!”
(It’s nice the rest of the world is starting to realize what a lot of us have known for a long time.)
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