PHP Scales As Well As Java

mactari writes "Jack Herrington at the O'Reilly Network has had the audacity to claim that both PHP and J2EE architecture... are converging on the same design [regarding scalability]. Can it be that he's disproven the idea that 'Java scales and scripting languages don't' when he says, 'The idea that PHP does not scale is clearly false at the performance level'? Even if a little oversimplified (ignores horizontal scaling), it's an interesting comparison that takes a peek at the architecture beneath both hypes."

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Re:Here's why...

[AstroDrabb]

VB is a very powerful language that many people use to build enterprise class applications

Oh my gosh, my side is splitting from laughing so hard. You have no clue what enterprise class means. I am a developer for a fortune 500 company with 110,000+ employees. VB does not scale. VB does not even do true threads. It only supports apartment threading. VB does not support one ounce of object oriented programming. A class in VB is NOT a real class. It does not support polymorphism, inheritence, etc. Try to write an large enterprise class application with many developers in VB and then you will know what I am talking about. Once an applications gets to so many thousands of lines of code, OO techniques become invaluable. VB is procedural and just doesn't cut it. VB is for kiddies or as Billy boy would say, "hobby" programmers. Can I create a class and inherit from it? No. Writting an application with a few thousand lines of code with maybe five developers does not make it enterprise class. The file handling is a joke. The syntax is joke. VB came in handy for a quick way to plan out a GUI. Plain and simple. Please tell us what "Enterprise" grade applications you have made with VB? Hell, name one "enterprise" grade application available in VB? Is SQL Server written in VB? Is Oracle?

and don't even think about reminding people here at Slashdot that Perl has been dead for a few years.

Are you even a developer? Comments like this make me doubt it. Look at the URL when you are in /. See that nice .pl on the end? That is perl. It is pretty funny that /. running perl can handle the load that many other sites out there just crock on, hence the term ./ing. There are still tons of perl sites out there. Perl is also indespensible when it comes to text processing or admin related tasks. Just because you don't have the ability to learn any language other then VB, doesn't me the rest of the world can't.

But show off something better and easier? Sacrilege.

Thats part of the problem right there. If you dumb down a language too much such as VB, you loose all the power features that comes with a language such as C, C++. It also contributes to all the headaches in the world of IT when you have tons of piss poor code written by sup-par "programmers" that cannont grasp anything harder then VB. Trusting a VB-only developer to write an Enterprise class application is like having the "tire change boy" be your machanic. It is a stupid choice to make.