Re: My list of PHP's shortcomings

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:39:12PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Nathan Torkington, High Priest of the Slippery Lighter, wrote:
> > Here are my reasons why the idea of using PHP on big projects scares
> > me:
> 
> Forgive me for slipping into marketing buzzwords, but I think the
> most succint description of PHP's downfall is that it doesn't
> support an "n-tier" model.  It doesn't support 3-tier and it doesn't
> even support 2-tier.

You can do n-tier programming in nearly any language that has
reasonable network libraries.  PHP is no exception.  That may not be
one of PHP's primary goals, but nobody ever claimed it was.

Jeremy
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