On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Dave Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:06:43AM +0000, Lusercop wrote:
>
> > Though I thought that there had been more than just that one. A remote
> > arbitrary code execution vulnerability is considerably more dangerous
> > than a local privilege escalation, in general.
>
> As far as actual holes are concerned (and I'm rather drunk right now,
> yes, at this time of the morning), I think there have only been two (2)
> in PHP 4. PHP 3 is not PHP. It's shit. :)
I remember people saying this about W3.11 when W95 came out.
I remember people saying this about W95 when W98 came out.
I remember people saying this about W98 when WNT came out.
After that I lose track.
It's still kind of funny though, when people dis' a previous version.
Following this are just comments on the thread which the saner members of
the list are advised neither to read nor reply to.
S.
-- flamage below --
> > What this boils down to, is that
> > a) I don't believe that scalable and maintainable sites can be easily
> > written in PHP
>
> I addressed this. It is because you suck, not the language. I thought
> people liked perl because of it's flexibility.
>
> And define scalability. mod_perl vs. mod_php are both equally as
> scaleable, ie. they rely on the Apache host. I could even argue PHP is
> more scaleable due its ability to run on top of shitloads of APIs. So,
> when your site breaks the 2 hits/sec threshold, and you need a scaleable
> web server and Apache is not it, a FastCGI or ISAPI-capable host might be.
I do try to stay out of the opinion ring but this, in my opinion, is a
steaming pile. Scaling mod_perl up to a few hundred hits a second isn't
hard. Scaling PHP to that isn't possible.
> If I were in charge of a production PHP environment (thanks to the N.
> Ireland I.T. industry, I'm not), it wouldn't be running facing the
> Internet directly. Then again, neither would mod_perl or any other large
> program with bits I hadn't explored.
Like the kernel, for example. *grin*
S.
--
Shevek
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