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Keywords and Language Simplicity

October 11th, 2007

Well, I like programming language comparisons, so how could I resist this chart (via) promoting the simplicity of the io language by pointing out how few keywords it has. The interesting thing about this is that Java and PHP are tied on this measure of simplicity with 53 keywords. Perhaps that reflects Java's [...]

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php|tek Slides

May 19th, 2007

Well, php|tek is over. It was a great conference and I'm really glad I went. This was my first PHP conference.
One of my main goals was to meet some of the folks at php|architect. I've been writing the Test Pattern column for them for over a year now. I was finally [...]

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Delphi for PHP

February 23rd, 2007

I have to comment on this week's annoucement of Delphi for PHP. I was a Delphi programmer for about 5 years before taking up PHP about 6 years ago. What a convergence.
I have a great fondness and respect for the old Object Pascal based Delphi. Delphi's VCL has been influential, inspiring the [...]

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OOP is Mature, not Dead

January 7th, 2007

I ran across an interesting series of blog posts by Karsten Wagner claiming that OOP is dead (part 2 and part 3). The premise behind these posts is that OOP has failed to deliver and that it is on the decline in favor of more functional or meta programming techniques. Maybe its true [...]

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PDO versus MDB2

December 26th, 2006

I was just putting together a small test program and I thought I would try using PDO. I really haven't done anything serious with PDO, just try it a couple times. After recompiling PHP to include the mysql driver for PDO, I coded up the first version of my test program:
 
$db = new [...]

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Why is PHP Code Considered Hard to Maintain?

November 9th, 2006

Tobias Schlitt describes Tim Bray's talk at the International PHP Conference. (PDF slides) Tim compares PHP, Java, and Rails along several dimensions. One of those dimensions is maintainability. Tim ranks PHP as least maintainable, Rails in the middle, and Java as most maintainable.
This is not a surprising ranking. [...]

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Programming Language Trends via Google

May 10th, 2006

There is a new google toy as of today: Google Trends. So of course, I wanted to see how PHP is faring on the trendy landscape. Here is a comparison of PHP, Java, C#, and Perl:

PHP   Java   C#   Perl

PHP seems to be holding steady, or slightly declining. But, Java is waning, as I discussed in [...]

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PHP Games

April 6th, 2006

Earlier this morning, I ran across the Heroes of might and magic online mini-game (via digg). The game is written in PHP and uses the prototype and scriptaculous java script libraries. The interface is very drag and drop oriented and it uses Ajax to update game status. The graphics are very good. [...]

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James Gosling on PHP

March 11th, 2006

James Gosling, the "father of Java," recently commented on PHP:

"PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems," he continued, "but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance [...]

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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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