Linked by snydeq on Tue 14th Oct 2008 16:58 UTC
Peter Wayner examines the platforms and passions underlying today's popular dynamic languages, and though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future, 10 forces in particular appear to be driving the evolution of this development domain. From the co-optation of successful ideas across languages, to the infusion of application development into applications that are fast evolving beyond their traditional purpose, to the rise of frameworks, the cloud, and amateur code enablers, each will have a profound effect on the future of today's dynamic development tools.
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But will PHP be able to shake the casual structure that encourages beginners to whip up spaghetti code? Will it be able to continue to mix the presentation layer and the application layer without driving everyone insane? Will Zend's collection of server optimizations provide enough performance to overcome any limitations of the language?
That stuff really turned me off of PHP.
How does PHP encourage this any more the Python. PHP just happened to get picked up by a lot of people with limited ability. PHP was just too easy. Fast forward to today and PHP5 is a proper object orientated language. The Zend Framework and countless others are what Django / Turbo Gears is to Python.
Now look at the documentation for the Zend Framework, look at the certification, look at the support and its clear if want to build a serious product and maintain it over many, many years PHP/Zend/Zend Framework are clearly superior even if Python is a better language.[i][/i]