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You Used PHP to Write WHAT?!

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KH
Kenneth Hess
Feb 20, 2008

“There is no single right answer to every problem and PHP is no
exception. The dynamic programming language has its strengths and
its weaknesses like any other language. PHP integrates very well
with HTML and has hundreds of functions that make it a very capable
programming language for a variety of tasks. It also has the
ability to interact with the operating system like a scripting
language. PHP is also widely held as the way to interact with
databases of almost every type.

“PHP is the go to guy for Web programming languages but are
there things better left to Perl, Ruby, Java, JavaScript or
Python…?”

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KH

Kenneth Hess

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