[aklug] Re: Ten Reasons Why PHP Is Still Better Than Ruby

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Thu Jun 24 2010 - 13:39:18 AKDT

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On 06/24/2010 01:28 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> Hilarious link providing ten "reasons" why PHP is still better than Ruby:
>>
>> http://www.bitcetera.com/en/techblog/2009/04/07/10-reasons-why-php-is-still-better-than-ruby--/
>
> I found #9 interesting. If those statistics are correct then a "dead"
> language like Perl is still producing more than twice the code of the newer
> "fad" languages. ;-)
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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The article actually was written last year. I don't know what the
current stats are on released packages. In this month's TIOBE (for
whatever it is worth) PHP outranks Perl, and Perl outranks Ruby.

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Christopher Howard
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