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Published March 9th, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran

Do you PHP? - Rasmus Lerdorf

In Do You PHP?, Rasmus Lerdorf talks about the history and evolution of PHP, and addresses some criticisms of the language.

Use the right tool for the job. I have run across companies that have completely bought into PHP, deploying it absolutely everywhere, but it was never meant to be a general-purpose language appropriate for every problem. It is most at home as the front-end scripting language for the Web. Depending on the traffic the Web site gets, it can be used to do the bulk of the back-end work as well.

Rasmus covers some of the same ground in this article as he does in his PHP Tips and Tricks presentation, but it makes excellent reading whether you’ve seen the presentation or not.

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