If they are going to inherently mangle their php and perl
and lose that abstraction layer I think in 2 years they
will look back and wish TMTOWTDI was their only
problem....
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 <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ...
