RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] snip Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] com... There are several large complex projects using PHP as the language, jsut as there are several large projects out there using C++, JAVA, Fortran, Cobol etc.etc.etc. /snip I'm cringeing! Did you

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-05 Thread Andrei Reinus
http://www.zend.com/customers.php Do all these companies think that PHP is just a kiddie language? just my 0.02$ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Daniel Pupius
What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie language? (Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) PHP is currently my strongest development language and it annoys me that it is a much less bankable skillset than .NET and Java. How long do you think it's

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Brent Baisley
category then. But to get this from a DHTML list? Egads! .NET can't even be considered a kiddie language because it's a framework, not a language. C# is the language of choice for .NET. On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:16 AM, Daniel Pupius wrote: What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie language? (Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) [/snip] Lack of knowledge begets statements like that. (On a DHTML board at that *snicker*) The only thing that you can say to them is this...when

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:16:06 -, you wrote: What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie language? (Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) PHP is currently my strongest development language and it annoys me that it is a much less bankable skillset

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] (It's foolish to get into blind religious wars over languages, so I won't take this any further, but it's also foolish to be wilfully ignorant of the strengths and weaknesses of the tools you use.) [/snip] ...or to make statements based on willfull ignornace of others tools. :) -- PHP

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Cesar Cordovez
People (and some boots): I'm not against or in favor of all this stuff, but exactly all the opposite... (lmao) Seriously, there is no kiddie nor professional languages out there, what is important is what you do with them. PHP will power yahoo in a couple of months more, that is a company

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Cesar Cordovez wrote: So there you go! We are all greek!!! Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs (Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Chris W. Parker
Cesar Cordovez mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:25 AM said: I work on a project 100% made in PHP and MySQL that costs a lot of money (6 figures) a copy. Ok... I can't let this go. Do tell! What is it? Or at the very least, what does it do? Chris. -- Don't like

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Cesar Cordovez
I'm byting my tongue off... I have to resist... I've signed a do not tell anybody thingy... It is huge, as in database with a million records, huge... But... I can't tell. Sorry. Anyhow, we chose PHP over Java, C++, C#, coldfusion and asp to do this. The process was very simple: it is

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Chris W. Parker
Cesar Cordovez mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:21 AM said: I'm byting my tongue off... I have to resist... I've signed a do not tell anybody thingy... It is huge, as in database with a million records, huge... But... ARGH! I understand. :( Chris. -- Don't

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm byting my tongue off... I have to resist... I've signed a do not tell anybody thingy... It is huge, as in database with a million records, huge... But... ARGH! I understand. :( [/snip] We process millions of records each day for a billing system based on PHP and MySQL. Gives us

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Daniel Pupius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie language? (Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) I would suggest not even bothering with these types of people. Like everyone else, they all have opinions

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Blake Schroeder
PROTECTED] wrote: What do you say to someone who says: PHP is just a kiddie language? (Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) -- +-+-++ | Blake Schroeder | Owner/Developer |lhwd.net| +--(http

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Adams
snip Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several large complex projects using PHP as the language, jsut as there are several large projects out there using C++, JAVA, Fortran, Cobol etc.etc.etc. /snip I'm cringeing! Did you just compare C++, Java,

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] There are several large complex projects using PHP as the language, jsut as there are several large projects out there using C++, JAVA, Fortran, Cobol etc.etc.etc. /snip I'm cringeing! Did you just compare C++, Java, PHP, Fortran and ... COBOL? [/snip] Not so much comparison as is

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: Cesar Cordovez [EMAIL PROTECTED] I work on a project 100% made in PHP and MySQL that costs a lot of money (6 figures) a copy. PD. Did I mention that it is cheap and reliable. Please tell me in what world is 6 figures considered cheap?? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing

RE: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Aaron Wolski
Please tell me in what world is 6 figures considered cheap?? My $300,000 home compared the $2,000,000 one I'd like to have? :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- CPT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cesar Cordovez [EMAIL PROTECTED] I work on a project 100% made in PHP and MySQL that costs a lot of money (6 figures) a copy. PS. Did I mention that it is cheap and reliable. Please tell me in what world is 6 figures considered

Re[2]: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Davey
Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8:21:44 PM, you wrote: CJWH Please tell me in what world is 6 figures considered cheap?? A Japanese one? :) Although mind you, that's still not exactly cheap being at least just over $9200. -- Best regards, Richardmailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread Cesar Cordovez
I was refering that the system we are building will be sold for about a half a mill, plus hardware, consultants, instalation, training, migration, etc, etc will be about one mill per client. Huge. LAMPHP are cheap and reliable. And we love it. Our clients love it. They don't have to pay a

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread John Nichel
Rob Adams wrote: snip Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several large complex projects using PHP as the language, jsut as there are several large projects out there using C++, JAVA, Fortran, Cobol etc.etc.etc. /snip I'm cringeing! Did you just

Re: [PHP] What do you say to someone who says...

2003-12-04 Thread John Nichel
CPT John W. Holmes wrote: From: Cesar Cordovez [EMAIL PROTECTED] I work on a project 100% made in PHP and MySQL that costs a lot of money (6 figures) a copy. PD. Did I mention that it is cheap and reliable. Please tell me in what world is 6 figures considered cheap?? ---John Holmes... 1)