PHP lifespan

[Eric Cope]

Hey Paul,
Any experience with Clojure? All benchmarking I've seen points to
incredible performance - http://clojure.org/rationale

Eric


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Carl Parrish <cparrish at carlparrish.com>wrote:

> I can only speak from my experience but I'm noticing a lot of projects
> that once would have been done in PHP are now being done in Python. While
> Ruby is my favorite language *I'm* not seeing as much interest from clients
> in it as I am in Python. I think it's safe to say that PHP is going to be
> around for awhile that said I think its going to start declining as more
> Python developers start to hit the market.
>
> On Apr 5, 2013, at 12:25 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,  I do not want to start any flame wars.  I would like to open a
> discussion though.
>
> I was thinking of what the life span of PHP might be.  I have lived
> through a number of them.
>
> In the early 80's COBOL was still taught and was in use.  I know it is
> still around, however I do not think anyone would choose COBOL for a new
> project.
>
> I also lived through the whole dBase, Clipper, FoxBase+, and Visual FoxPro
> cycle.  FoxPro was acquired by M$ 15 or 18 years ago, which started it's
> slow decline.  M$ finally killed it last year.
>
> So I am wondering about PHP.  What might it's lifespan be?  What might be
> the next big thing... etc.
>
> I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
>
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