PHP 6.0: More to Love, Less to Hate
One of the languages that many people love to hate is PHP. What started out as a simple templating language written in Perl has become one of the biggest open-source success stories. PHP might theoretically be a general-purpose programming language, but in practice, it is used almost exclusively for creating Web applications.
PHP is extremely popular: It runs under many operating systems, and many Web servers has dozens of modules that add to its capabilities. More than that, PHP programs execute quickly, without using a lot of memory. Contrast that with Ruby on Rails, which everyone admits runs slowly and uses too much memory. Java might give you similar or better performance, but PHP has a far shallower learning curve, making it easy to write some code and put it online.
That said, there are reasons for programmers to turn their noses up at PHP. Among the biggest have been:
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