What PHP Deployment Gets Right

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It's popular among Python and Ruby web developers to slam on PHP these days, which I've never really been into. It's nice to see Ian Bicking give PHP credit for something it does do well. Personally, I think the points about the shared C library and no global state are the real wins of PHP deployment. As an aside, I've always thought PHP was like C for the web.... it's hard to do good C code for the average developer, but that doesn't mean C isn't a powerful or "good" language. The same could be said for PHP. Sure Python is a better general purpose language, and I certainly love using it for web development. But I see the value and usefulness of PHP at the same time.

• Web Address: http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/01/12/what-php-deployment-gets-right/
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• Tags: php, python, languages, deployment, web
• Saved by Deryck Hodge on January 22, 2008.
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