Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-29 22:16, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Adam Richardson"<simpleshot at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.1291.1309377741.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a>  wrote:
>>
>>> "James Fisher"<jameshfisher at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>>> news:mailman.1279.1309339361.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>>
>>>> I don't aim to proselytize one mini-language over another, as they're
>>> much
>>>> of a muchness.  But I'd hope to convince people that:
>>>>
>>>>    - Besides required functionality, the key reason to choose one
>>>>    markup/documentation/html-generating format is popularity.  It opens
>>>> up
>>>>    development to new users, frees up maintainers of old documentation
>>>>    generators, and gives you new tools to use for free.  Markup formats
>>> are
>>>> one
>>>>    area where Might Is Right.
>>>
>>> Popularity should *never* be a significant concern. That's how we end up
>>> with complete shit like PHP becoming widespread.
>>>
>>
>> Easy :) While I wouldn't use PHP for systems programming, PHP is a solid
>> tool for building websites.
>>
>
> It's complete garbage for building websites. It's complete garbage for
> *everything*. And I've dealt with PHP and PHP web apps a *lot*. I can't
> think of a single other web-oriented tool or language that I wouldn't rather
> build a website with than PHP. Even Classic-ASP with VBScript, absolutely
> horrid as it is, is at least a somewhat *stable* target.

I wouldn't completely agree with that. I hate PHP as well but I would 
choose PHP rather than Classic-ASP with VBScript.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg