>>>>> "scott" == scott marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
scott> This is simply not true. PHP comes in both a web ready
scott> embedded version, as well as a CLI version, and is quite
scott> capable, even of handling things like streams and such, and can
scott> even be used to write a daemon listening on a port quite
scott> easily.
But PHP is where Perl was five years ago, and continually plays
catchup. If you want real work done, use the right tool. PHP is fine
for nifty web pages for smallish sites, but Perl takes over when the
real heavy lifting is needed.
scott> Just because it (probably) hasn't been used to write such a
scott> system doesn't mean you couldn't do it in PHP.
You could do it in assembler too. But why?
To keep from wasting precious human cycles, you need something with
the code density and flexibility of Perl or better. Python, Ruby,
that league. Not C, not Java, not PHP.
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