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Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? [message #180249 is a reply to message #180246] Sat, 02 February 2013 21:43 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:27:45 -0700 crankypuss <noemail(at)noemail(dot)invalid> wrote:

>
> (Apologies for the cross-post.)
>
> I don't like bash, haven't seen anything that crude since back in the
> days when I was writing FORTRAN and BASIC, so I've been writing all of
> my local applications in PHP.

Bash is 'Born Again Shell' and is just an extended flavor of the Bourne
Shell, which is truly very simple in many ways. I don't think anyone
really considers bash seriously as something to write actual full-blown
applications in -- it never was (and is not) considered an 'application
programming language'. It is more meant either for basic simple
scripts -- short hand for commonly / repeatedly used command sequences
or for writing wrappers around applications that need some special
environment (like mozilla firefox). Tradionally, UNIX people write
their applications in C. These days, C++ has replaced C for larger
applications in many ways. Otherwise people use other high-level
languages, mostly scripting ones: Perl, Python (yech), Tcl(/Tk), Java,
XUL/JavaScript, etc. (And yes, for major number crunching
applications, FORTRAN is used heavily as COBOL is used heavily in
business applications.)

>
> The folks who frequent comp.lang.php seem to be pretty web-centric which
> makes sense as far as that goes. The folks who frequent the various
> Linux fora seem pretty bash-centric which also makes sense as far as
> that goes.
>
> As an aside, I've been using Linux for long enough now to realize how
> shell-centric it is as an operating system; I'm somewhat blown away by
> that but it too makes its own kind of sense.

The shell is what makes the world go round... :-) The shell is like
connective tissue. Not terribly exicting or useful on its own, but
without it, everything would fall apart.

>
> Is there a forum where the other folks (presuming there are any) who
> have been writing applications in PHP hang out? Don't say "yeah dummy,
> go to comp.lang.python" please, my homor quotient is maxed out for
> today. <g>

Yeah, I don't like Python either. Many people use Perl, but I consider
Perl something of a write-only language (Perl is the new APL). *I* use
Tcl(/Tk) for desktop applications, both for non-GUI scripting and for
GUI applications (even rather major ones). PHP is not really intended
for standalone *desktop* applications. It was *specificly* designed
for Web Applications and has many *core* features specific for such
applications. I don't believe there are any GUI toolkits available for
php.

>

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