That said, Kudo's to yahoo for being this public about it. These are the sorts of publically available presentations that give those of us trying to justify our existence some teeth.
Walking into a management meeting and saying 'Look, even yahoo disdains Java and they have 4500+ servers and are the biggest internet portal and have a lot of geeks programming and even they admit modperl is awesome and fast and they are only not using it becuase its TO powerful' is a potent weapon. Cheesy yes, needed, yes..
John-
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:12:02 +0800
Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You would think if they want an anal scripting language they would move to python not PHP. :)
John Saylor wrote:
Hi ( 02.10.30 03:22 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins:They didn't make their decision on performance though. They seem to have been most influenced by the idea that perl allows too much flexibility in coding style, although I can't see how PHP is going to help with that.Wow, I'd like what *they* had for lunch!
Quasi-seriously, as someone who has had to maintain mountains of bad
perl code, I know TMTOWTDI can have a downside; but the openness of the
language is what has lead to its greatness ...
