...So his server has mod_php loaded... So what?! Haven't you ever written a CGI script and run it on a server with PHP installed?

Actually, no. I have used Perl to generate PHP source code, to reduce the load on a MySQL database, if you must know. ;-) But that was way back in 1995.

How do you know it's even his decision and not his hosting provider's?

That is a good point. I've never been in the situation of being dependent of an ISP in that way, so I did not consider that. I should have.

...It's one thing to have a personal dislike of PHP...

I don't have a personal dislike of PHP. Have used it for years (from 1995 to 1999). I wasn't happy with PHP in 1996 (mainly for reliability reasons) and developed my own templating system. Had PHP been more reliable then, I would never have done that, and for all we know, might still have been a PHP user to this very day.

And even if I would dislike PHP, I would have a right to it, since "I've been there and I've done that". Not like snobs who disrespect anything they do not know.

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Code Initialization by liz
in thread Code Initialization by saintbrie

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