Carlos Konstanski wrote: Writing a monster website with zillions of users in any interpreted language seems silly to me. Fixing it by making PHP a compiled language is one way to solve the problem, I guess. A simpler solution might have been to translate the codebase to a compiled language.
Excuse my ignorance on the matter, but what makes a interpreted language inherently less appropriate for a web site like FB, and a compiled language inherently more appropriate. I'm not asking for a full scholarly redress, but just a summary of the key points... _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
