[Foss-cafe] a little piece i wrote on the end of the world

[Pupeno]

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On Monday 29 March 2004 16:32, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:17, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > Using PHP to write GUI software is quite frankly insane.
>
> I don't agree at all.  PHP is a great language to write small to
> mid-sized GTK applications in.  It has *tons* of great features like
> database integration, string manipulation routines, network transparent
> file handles, XML-RPC/SOAP functionality, image manipulation libraries,
> etc.  And that's not even counting the stuff you can do when you
> integrate pear. It's also much faster than you'd think an interpreted
> language could be. On a modern machine (like my 3 year old thinkpad)
> it's difficult to tell that the application isn't running from native
> compiled code.
Doesn't C++ has more or less all those features and functionality and much 
more ? 
What about Python ?
Being that PHP is so close to C++/C I don't see a reason to use PHP instead of 
C++/C on a desktop application.
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