There is a discussion on the PHP Internals list about adding a GOTO statement to PHP (via NuCleuZ).
A little History … (lest we forget)
Gotos have had a long and sordid history in computer science. In the early days, before languages had a rich set of control structures, goto’s were it. It turned out [...]
goto in PHP
July 29th, 2004Commercial Zend versus Open Source PHP
July 19th, 2004Marco Tablini has a long blog entry about friction between the commercial activities of Zend and the PHP open source community. I am not even going to try to tally the balance sheet for Zend’s Karma. I do have one point (or rather several questions) to add to Marco’s “evil” Zend bullet [...]
Happy 20th B-day Corewars
July 15th, 2004I ran across this blog entry wishing Core Wars a happy 20th Birthday. Its hard to believe that it has been 20 years. I was fascinated by the Scientific American articles when they came out.
Around the time it came out, I was interested in artificial life and evolution. I used [...]
Friendster wrapup: does MySQL scale
July 14th, 2004Here is a wrap up of some links and information from the friendster PHP conversion of a couple weeks ago.
First, it appears performance really was a major problem for friendster. Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes:
The key issues behind the Friendster abandonment trend, according to users, are the service’s inability to do anything about its habitual [...]
Jason Sweat’s Blog
July 13th, 2004I was pleased to discover today that Jason Sweat has a Blog.
The PHP scalability saga continues
July 1st, 2004Troutgirl wieghs in with some more information on the Friendster PHP conversion:
1) We had not one but TWO guys here who had written bestselling JSP books. Not that this necessarily means they’re great Java devs, but I actually think our guys were as good as any team.
2) We tried rewriting the site in Java twice, [...]
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