Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Paris wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:06 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Is it happy hour yet?
>
> I hope so because this debate is sounding increasingly like a replay  
> of several from the past.
>
>   
Interesting.  The conversation was perfectly acceptable when you were 
touting the positives of PHP.  Yet as it turns to the topic - the 
_dis_advantages of PHP - you find it a replay.

I find the term "replay" particularly interesting because I don't ever 
remember a discussion of the downfalls of dynamic types in this forum.  
I grant you it's a regular discussion among programming professionals in 
general, but not one much discussed here because it's never really been 
an issue on the i, what with RPG and COBOL being statically typed languages.

Perhaps you were referring to some other part of the thread.  But I 
thought it was helpful to elucidate the potential pitfalls of 
dynamically typed languages.

Joe