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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • October 20, 2005
    Just to heat things up a bit, here's an article by Stephen Shankland that's sure to make some programmers upset:

    ``The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in a speech here at the Zend/PHP Conference.

    ``Java enjoyed great success when its inventor, Sun Microsystems, released it in 1995, largely because it was optimized better for programmers than for machines, making software development significantly easier, Andreessen said. Unfortunately, Java has acquired many of the unfavorable characteristics of its predecessors, he added.

    ```Java is much more programmer-friendly than C or C++, or was for a few years there until they made just as complicated. It's become arguably even harder to learn than C++,' Andreessen said. And the mantle of simplicity is being passed on: `PHP...is an easier environment to develop in than Java.'''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1012-5903187.html

    Bioinformatics.Org uses nothing but PHP for internally-developed content, and we're very pleased with it. The online documentation is excellent, and of course, it's open-source: http://php.net

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