Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:05:57AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Please don't construe this statement as a veiled snipe at PHP (or Java, or any other language). It's just an observation of fact.
I should help stab someone for choosing PHP, too, for that matter -- but we work with what we've got.
Unthreaded: in a clear field, Chad, what *would* you have implemented MediaWiki in? And why?
I can't speak for other people, but I would do the parser in C (using lex/yacc) and the rest in Perl.
For the parser, I'm sure the "why" is self-evident. For the rest, the answer to "why" unfortunately includes "I don't know any Python or Ruby". All I know is that PHP is unsuitable for anything larger than a quick hack.
Timwi