[UPHPU] Rails vs PHP

[Roberto Mello]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:38:12PM -0600, John David Anderson wrote:
> 
> http://php.net/fopen (you can do "fopen("http://...");

Really? Wow, what an ugly hack that must be.

> PHP isn't just for web development. First example that comes to mind  
> is PHP-GTK, but there are process control functions and other stuff  
> in there, too. I also use PHP scripts for most sysadmin tasks.

Yeah, but it has been hacked up together to get those things in. At my job
I work with a large medical application written in PHP. We sometimes have
to do data migrations that rely on our existing PHP code, and PHP *sucks*
horribly at long-running processes. Invariably PHP dies several times for
inexplicable reasons.

-Roberto