[UPHPU] Rails vs PHP

[Joshua Simpson]

On 3/26/07, Roberto Mello <rmello at fslc.usu.edu> wrote:
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> Can you give us some examples of functionality that is PHP but not in
> other languages? 'cause I don't see this at all.


Obviously, it's not possible.  And I like to quote Python, so I will here.
urllib, and urllib2, and BeautifulSoup, and HTMLParser, all offer far more
possibilities than PHP, and I don't think anyone can argue that (woe to
those who do!).


> Well, abstraction layers can be built, and there are many for PHP. The
> discussion at hand is whether PHP itself is a good language to build
> programs. So far the answer appears to be "no"


Well, this is why I compare PHP to other language's frameworks;  all PHP
offers is a  simple, function derivative focus  on the web, while Ruby on
Rails offers a complete package ( as much as I may dislike Ruby itself ),
and the various Python frameworks do the same.

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