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Zend Framework Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the up-and-at-'em dept.

banetbi writes "The new Zend Collaboration Project website is finally online. Included in the site is a completely new PHP Developer Zone and a pre-release of the Zend Framwork."

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  1. Always wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hi!

    I always wonder how has PHP achieved so high market penetration. It is easy to introduce parsable errors like in Perl. It is slow, like Python. It can be unreadable, like Perl. Some custom extensions (mainly PECL) make shared hosts extremely exotic, like Python and Ruby. So no big deal. All of them, PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby have their disadvantages. Why is PHP so sucessfull while there are fully operational frameworks (like Catalyst) when PHP has unfinished Zend Framework or Seagull 0.x.x.

    Don't get me wrong, I live from coding in PHP, but I always wonder, what happend to Perl, fully functional, backward compatible (mainly), extensible and proven language that can be used for building webapps either from scratch or with use of framework.

    1. Re:Always wonder... by Davorama · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No big mystery there.

      PHP was the easiest thing to learn and do useful things with at a time when everybody was jumping on the .com bandwagon.

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      Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.