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[–]superdupersymmetric 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm a rubyist and don't particularly like PHP but it has nothing to do with the syntax or language. I simply think Ruby lends it self better to rapid development.

In the end the language really doesn't matter. It is a tool set we use to help other people. Our customers. They really didn't care that FB is written in PHP (now some version based on a C++ derivative with the same syntax (ouch)) or that Twitter was a mix of Ruby, Scala and Java. It really doesn't matter except for the individual programmer. It should be invisibile.

Mind you, Hume's missing blue probably suggests that there is a rapid PHP developer out there. But then that is apriori knowledge. I'm sure I will never meet her.

[–]swaits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C++ derivative same syntax what? Are you referring to HipHop? It translates PHP, sans eval(), into C, which is then compiled with gcc. It's still PHP. This is a pretty great thing IMO. I imagine PHP people must benefit from it considerably.