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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by mahmud on Sunday February 06, 2011 @03:45PM (#2186406)
PHP gets websites built. But what use do I have for it if I want to make software? you know, something other than pumping ascii over a socket descriptor?
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by neckbeard on Sunday February 06, 2011 @04:02PM (#2186444)
Careful, that's a form of heresy around these parts.
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by dgouldin on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:37PM (#2187469)
The kicker for me was discovering that Facebook's PHP shell (http://www.phpsh.org/) is in fact written in Python.
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by kenjackson on Sunday February 06, 2011 @04:01PM (#2186438)
The toolbelt of even the least experienced craftsman has more than a single tool.
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by xd on Sunday February 06, 2011 @05:09PM (#2186593)
Give me an example of something you can't do in PHP. The language is turing complete .. your statement makes no sense.
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by bretthoerner on Sunday February 06, 2011 @09:28PM (#2187276)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by TimJYoung on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:08AM (#2188744)
I think the issue is whether one would even want to attempt to develop certain types of software using languages and environments that were designed to be used in a specific way. PHP would certainly not be one's first choice for developing native Windows desktop applications, for example.
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by rbanffy on Sunday February 06, 2011 @05:36PM (#2186660)
Given the needed supporting technology, you can write a filesystem driver in PHP. With FUSE, you can.

What we should be questioning is how pointless would such endeavor be.

Like kenjackson pointed out (and, oddly, this time I agree with him ;-)), your toolbox should not be restricted to PHP, however Turing-complete it may be.

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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by arethuza on Sunday February 06, 2011 @06:53PM (#2186863)
I wonder if you could write FUSE in PHP...
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Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010 by rbanffy on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:46AM (#2188834)
You would need to extend PHP somehow and make the kernel and its data structures visible.

But I have no intention of even dedicating one minute to such thoughts

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