"Adam Richardson" <simples...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1291.1309377741.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > >> "James Fisher" <jameshfis...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.1279.1309339361.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> > >> > I don't aim to proselytize one mini-language over another, as they're >> much >> > of a muchness. But I'd hope to convince people that: >> > >> > - Besides required functionality, the key reason to choose one >> > markup/documentation/html-generating format is popularity. It opens >> > up >> > development to new users, frees up maintainers of old documentation >> > generators, and gives you new tools to use for free. Markup formats >> are >> > one >> > area where Might Is Right. >> >> Popularity should *never* be a significant concern. That's how we end up >> with complete shit like PHP becoming widespread. >> > > Easy :) While I wouldn't use PHP for systems programming, PHP is a solid > tool for building websites. >
It's complete garbage for building websites. It's complete garbage for *everything*. And I've dealt with PHP and PHP web apps a *lot*. I can't think of a single other web-oriented tool or language that I wouldn't rather build a website with than PHP. Even Classic-ASP with VBScript, absolutely horrid as it is, is at least a somewhat *stable* target.
