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Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? [message #180277 is a reply to message #180259]

Sun, 03 February 2013 18:43

crankypuss
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On 02/03/2013 04:50 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/02/13 11:44, J.O. Aho wrote:
>> On 03/02/13 12:20, crankypuss wrote:
>>
>>> The big question in my sick mind is whether to build a distro that uses
>>> PHP as its primary scripting language or build a new language that's
>>> what PHP could have been if it hadn't been mucked-about by all and
>>> sundry who gave it functions like is_array() and isset() and when a
>>> language doesn't even have consistent naming conventions well there ya
>>> go. <g>
>>
>> There are loads of scripting languages, but you will always know that a
>> Linux (including Unix too) will have a shell installed, which makes the
>> shell scripting a lot more popular for you don't have to install another
>> dependency to be able to run. If REXX been built in by default in the
>> Linux/Unix world, then it would have been as popular for scripting as
>> Arexx in the Amiga community and replacing shell scripting with
>> something else will be something just for your own distro.
>>
>> One thing talking against PHP is the memory leaking that happens over
>> time, writing a daemon you will have it to eat up memory and need to be
>> restarted and it don't help to use unset() every time you are finished
>> with a variable.
>>
>>
>>> Then they stuck on some OOP functionality and OOP is what everybody
>>> thinks is the hot item but it's clumsier than hell to have to pass
>>> around a this-pointer and you can't slip another layer into an existing
>>> class derivation without rewriting half the world.
>>
>> Nothing forces you to use OOP, OOP has it's beauties, but not always the
>> optimal way to write the code.
>>
>>
>>> Of course at the same time there's the struggle over screen i/o,
>>> everybody and his brother wants GUI which is fine except that character
>>> mode has its uses as well.
>>
>> Sure you can write desktop applications in PHP, but not all OS:es has
>> gtk/qt/ncurses bindings and not all Linux distributions has those
>> available from the official repository, which makes PHP a poor option to
>> write desktop applications.
>>
>>
>>> The obvious compromise is an embedded app
>>> that uses PHP to write pages to an internal browser rendering engine but
>>> html has its limitations and damned if I'm wanting to get involved in
>>> javascript.
>>
>> PHP was made for the web and it's where it has it's strengths and to
>> make things faster and smother javascript will be a part of your life.
>>
>>
>> If you want something cross-platform, then look at mono, sure it's
>> larger to install than PHP, but the benefit is that you can make
>> applications that will run on multiple platforms.
>>
> java is probably the most popular cross platform interpreted language.
>
>

And McDonalds probably sells more bad hamburgers than anybody else.

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		anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sat, 02 February 2013 20:27
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: DanS on Sat, 02 February 2013 20:57
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 10:45
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: DanS on Sun, 03 February 2013 12:00
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jonathan N. Little on Sat, 02 February 2013 21:27
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 10:49
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 03 February 2013 11:00
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jonathan N. Little on Sun, 03 February 2013 15:17
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 18:40
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jonathan N. Little on Sun, 03 February 2013 19:00
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Richard Yates on Sun, 03 February 2013 21:56
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Martin on Mon, 04 February 2013 00:53
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 04 February 2013 02:40
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Tim Streater on Mon, 04 February 2013 09:14
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 09:32
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jonathan N. Little on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:06
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:15
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:24
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jonathan N. Little on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:35
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 09:22
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 February 2013 12:16
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 18:49
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 February 2013 21:22
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:38
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:41
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:58
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 09:21
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 February 2013 12:15
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 18:52
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 February 2013 21:23
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jasen Betts on Tue, 05 February 2013 06:00
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 05 February 2013 12:49
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 05 February 2013 13:22
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Cybe R. Wizard on Tue, 05 February 2013 14:50
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 04 February 2013 07:40
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 09:49
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Robert Heller on Sat, 02 February 2013 21:43
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 10:57
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Keith D. Lee on Sat, 02 February 2013 22:20
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 11:13
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jasen Betts on Mon, 04 February 2013 12:23
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 15:57
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 05 February 2013 13:04
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 05 February 2013 12:59
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Sun, 03 February 2013 09:58
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 11:20
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 03 February 2013 11:44
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 03 February 2013 11:50
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 03 February 2013 12:47
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 03 February 2013 13:23
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jasen Betts on Mon, 04 February 2013 11:32
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Sun, 03 February 2013 18:43
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Sun, 03 February 2013 13:08
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Sun, 03 February 2013 13:49
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: John Hasler on Sun, 03 February 2013 14:16
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Richard Kettlewell on Sun, 03 February 2013 15:28
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: John Hasler on Sun, 03 February 2013 15:39
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Sun, 03 February 2013 16:50
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: John Hasler on Sun, 03 February 2013 17:24
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Sun, 03 February 2013 19:25
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Richard Kettlewell on Sun, 03 February 2013 20:25
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Sun, 03 February 2013 21:47
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: John Hasler on Sun, 03 February 2013 22:32
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 03 February 2013 22:59
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Mon, 04 February 2013 00:21
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jasen Betts on Mon, 04 February 2013 11:46
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Richard Kettlewell on Sun, 03 February 2013 23:13
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:21
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:28
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: John Hasler on Sun, 03 February 2013 20:26
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Jasen Betts on Mon, 04 February 2013 11:37
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Tim Streater on Sun, 03 February 2013 13:17
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 04 February 2013 07:38
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Tim Streater on Mon, 04 February 2013 09:34
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 10:06
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 10:01
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:08
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: M. Strobel on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:34
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Mon, 04 February 2013 16:44
		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 09:36
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Tue, 05 February 2013 20:22
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Wed, 06 February 2013 00:06
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: J G Miller on Wed, 06 February 2013 15:37
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: crankypuss on Tue, 05 February 2013 09:26
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		Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? By: Tim Streater on Tue, 05 February 2013 12:56
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