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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PHP 5 OO is hardly messy. It may not have the purity of OO that Ruby has but its fully featured and works well. Its also fast compared to the competition.
PHP's biggest problem was always insecure defaults i.e. convenience over security. PHP 6 should fully rectify this issue.