On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Per Jessen <p...@computer.org> wrote: > Tommy Pham wrote: > >> What I find funny is that one of opponents of PHP threads earlier >> mentioned that how silly it would be to be using C in a web app. Now >> I hear people mentioning C when they need "productivity" or "speed"... >> > > I think I was the one to mention the latter, but as I started out > saying, and as others have said too, it's about the right tool for the > right job. When choosing a tool, there are a number of factors to > consider - developer productivity, available skills, future > maintenance, performance, scalability, portability, parallelism, > performance etcetera. >
Funny you should mention all that. Let's say that you're longer with that company, either by direct employment or contract consultant. You've implemented C because you need 'thread'. Now your replacement comes in and has no clue about C even though your replacement is a PHP guru. How much headache is maintenance gonna be? Scalability? Portability? wow.... > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (11.4°C) > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
