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PHP Becoming More Popular

Posted by michael on from the jack-of-all-trades dept.

IO ERROR pastes "'PHP has earned the title "Programming Language of the Year 2004" with a positive delta of more than 3 percent within 1 year. The launch of PHP version 5 is generally regarded as a further step to maturity. It is expected that PHP will be capable to maintain its top 4 position for a long time,' according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index. 'The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors.'"

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  1. SkillMarket disagrees... by mshiltonj · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the data on my SkillMarket site, php (on the languages page) is holding steady. The data tracked is a bit different, however (Job listings vs search engines hits).

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  2. Re:Python Servlet Engine is the answer! by profet · · Score: 2, Informative
    Sick of the problems with PHP? Badly implimented APIs, web pages with ugly code buried everyplace doing things that it should be?

    Try PSE! It cures warts, common colds and PHP!

    http://nick.borko.org/pse/

    Ciao!


    Oh come on... If you are witing ugly PHP code then you don't know the language.

    Have a JAVA/.NET developer look at PHP5 and they'll tell you how it exudes enterprise level features.

    Add Smarty and PEAR to the mix and you have one hell of a platform.