At 11:38 AM 4/2/2006, tedd wrote:
At 4:20 PM -0500 4/1/06, Joe Wollard wrote:
Leave poor Zouari alone! I for one think that Microsoft buying Zend would be
the best thing to happen to PHP, EVAR!
You might not think that way if you had been developing in M$ QuickBASIC
for the Mac. One day M$ just said "Nope, the line isn't making the money
we want, so we're dropping it." There were a lot of developers who were
left hanging -- I wouldn't want to be there again.
If at all possible, I choose any alternative over what M$ provides.
tedd
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Ditto to what Tedd just wrote - a major client has a project stranded
forever in VB6 because MSFT broke the model with VB.NET. There are
constructs and structures which were perfectly legitimate when it was first
conceived, when VB4 was the current version.
So - when I was asked to write a little app to maintain some subscriber
billing info and create some reports on the desktop side, which could have
been done in Excel, I opted for PHP, PHP-GTK and MySQL. There was a
learning curve with PHP-GTK's layout (Glade helped a lot!!) but this will
continue to work, Windows or Linux, and should run on later Macs.
Great feeling!
Miles
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