"Alexander" <aldem+dm...@nk7.net> wrote in message news:iqm4ru$qj3$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 13.05.2011 17:19, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > >> It's *much* better, especially for rapid development. The compiler >> will tell me if my changes anywhere break things anywhere else, >> so I can modify with confidence. > > Sure, there are many pros. And one significant drawback - it couldn't be > easily embedded into HTML code. > > Either, you have to generate all your pages from inside of CGI script, or > use templates - but the main advantage of PHP is that you can mix it with > page text. >
That's not an advantage at all. That was considered an advantage of PHP (and ASP) ages ago, but then web developers quickly discovered that was a horrible, horrible thing to do and caused nothing but terrible code. Even the PHP/ASP worlds have pretty much abandoned that, and for good reason.
