Re: I couldn't understand why PHP is so popular. The PHP code looks so horrible compared with Java.

In our last episode, <67o3n9F2oekueU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the lovely and
talented Kim André Akerø broadcast on comp.lang.php:

tenxian wrote:

Could you put up with the horrible PHP code?

Yes, I can. PHP is a language that's easy to learn and easy to use,
which is why so many choose to use it.

Widely supported has something to do with it. Just about commercial host is
going to have PHP and MySQL.

For web applications, it is sort of like inside-out perl. Lots of
processing and little markup output: perl or C(++). Lots of markup, a
little processing: PHP. Giant dedicated serverzilla for major landmark
site: Java.

IMO, it's not much more horrible than C++ or Java; it all depends on
the programmer who makes use of it.



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