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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I'm afraid I find it hard to see the phrases "PHP" and "proper object oriented language" together in the same sentence without gagging.
It's like saying Visual Basic is a programming language...
PHP was great, up until about PHP3, where it was primarily an HTML Templating language, and it did this very well. After that, shoddy language design -- or perhaps uncontrolled feature-creep -- meant you ended up with a messy object orientation system and the biggest screw-up since Python disallowed Array.join as well as String.join: PHP's (in)equality testing...
That alone should get some people removed from the gene pool, three generations ago.