Comparing PHP with other languages

February 9th, 2006

Chris Shiflett posted some thoughts on PHP and Ruby on Rails which has generated some interesting discussion. Chris divides programming languages into two categories:

Flexible and powerful: PHP, C, C++, and Perl.
Structured and organized: Java, Ruby, and ASP.NET.

I don’t disagree with the cultural grouping. PHP’s cultural heritage is definitely in the Unix programming, C/Perl [...]

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Manual Memory Management is Dead

June 17th, 2004

Joel Spolsky’s How Microsoft Lost the API War is a good read. I think he is spot on about managed-memory languages. Thats a job that computers are better at than people and our computers are fast enough to handle it.
GUI development in the early 90s/late 80s was a nightmare. [...]

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