NYCPHP Meetup

[Steve Manes]

Mark Armendariz wrote:
> A good friend mentioned that he usually argues that the development time 
> is preferable with PHP. Anyone here have resources to share or a good 
> general direction to walk in with this argument?

A company for whom I consult was considering porting their existing ASP 
software from PHP/Perl to Java.  Their reason had mostly to do with 
their new tech director and the fact that he only knew Java.

Most of my arguments fell on deaf ears.  The one that finally caused the 
bosses to put the kibosh on the Java porting project was my reminder of 
how the software is hacked almost daily to add new chrome and doodads 
for specific ASP clients without affecting the others.  PHP (and Perl) 
are simply better suited to this sort of ad hoc surgery than Java.

It also helped when I told them that their PHP/PostgreSQL production 
servers had been up for 480 days without a reboot (they were also 
considering porting to an MS architecture).