In fact, there was a rumor that Zend bought and killed http://sourceforge.net/projects/turck-mmcache/, the best accelerator out there because it competed with their commercial product.
Did they not buy and Kill Turck MMChache but hired the main developper to work for them thereby "killing" the project.
IMO PHP is great for doing many things it will never replace C/C++ or JAVA but its a quick and simple solution. and Yes there are many bad php scripts out there. theres also a really bad web browser with many security holes let it go nothing will ever be perfect.
Yes there are many features that could use to improve itself but the idea behind PHP is quick and easy. the cost of bulding a program usually rely on the programmers not on the hardware and if you are into making a big site just install APC yourself who cares if a compiler is built in the default. for your default needs it doesn't matter hardware is relatively dirt cheap to your programming costs. What makes php so good and popular is that to write to the screen you don't need 4 classes of buffers and such you go echo to get the contents of a file be it web or not you go file_get_contents(http://www.example.com/ and voila you get stuff done quicker. its not optimized but really you'll get more impact on a script if you have a good algorythm than if you do some real hard core optimizations (like taking MM turk over APC or another that compile first the scripts)
and lets not even talk about the community surrounding PHP with so many open source classes to speed up development. that the power of PHP.
As a side note my wishlist for PHP includes overloading and type hinting/auto converting before namespaces.
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In fact, there was a rumor that Zend bought and killed http://sourceforge.net/projects/turck-mmcache/, the best accelerator out there because it competed with their commercial product.
Did they not buy and Kill Turck MMChache but hired the main developper to work for them thereby "killing" the project.
IMO PHP is great for doing many things it will never replace C/C++ or JAVA but its a quick and simple solution. and Yes there are many bad php scripts out there. theres also a really bad web browser with many security holes let it go nothing will ever be perfect.
Yes there are many features that could use to improve itself but the idea behind PHP is quick and easy. the cost of bulding a program usually rely on the programmers not on the hardware and if you are into making a big site just install APC yourself who cares if a compiler is built in the default. for your default needs it doesn't matter hardware is relatively dirt cheap to your programming costs. What makes php so good and popular is that to write to the screen you don't need 4 classes of buffers and such you go echo to get the contents of a file be it web or not you go file_get_contents(http://www.example.com/ and voila you get stuff done quicker. its not optimized but really you'll get more impact on a script if you have a good algorythm than if you do some real hard core optimizations (like taking MM turk over APC or another that compile first the scripts)
and lets not even talk about the community surrounding PHP with so many open source classes to speed up development. that the power of PHP.
As a side note my wishlist for PHP includes overloading and type hinting/auto converting before namespaces.