Support Forums: Message List - Tim Bray: Java is less scalable than PHP http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:12 -0400 It depends on the stack and frameworks used http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
So, IMHO such a generic result cannot...]]> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:41:11 -0400 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:41:11 -0400 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:41:11 -0400 Apr 13, 2010 Martin Wildam 0 Re: let's think then http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 The clear winner concerning multithreading is of course Java, especially with the freshly integrated concurrency package....]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:43:03 -0500 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:43:03 -0500 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:43:03 -0500 Nov 20, 2006 John Brand 0 enter the matrix http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:42:20 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:42:20 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:42:20 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Nhat Vo 1 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
no reference was made to HTML.


Well, this thread is about web frameworks. It includes mention of PHP, which is primarily for writing HTML, and has no standard framework (like Rails) for simplifying database...]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:28:47 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:28:47 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:28:47 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Paul Beckford 0 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 no reference was made to HTML....]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:14 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:14 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:14 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Steve Zara 1 Re: MORE scalable or LESS scalable ? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 ...and Ruby and PHP and Python and .NET will all have reached full parity with Java within the next twelve to eighteen months. Should we be expecting a Tangosol product for the LAMP stack space soon? ;)]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:51:06 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:51:06 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:51:06 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Stephen Molitor 0 MORE scalable or LESS scalable ? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 there is no such thing like "more scalable" or "less scalable". Your app/technology is either scalable or not. It is a non-functional attribute of your application that you can achieve by a good design. Scalability in few words means that...]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:57:54 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:57:54 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:57:54 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Cameron Purdy 1 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
In your zeal to defend Java, you have totally misquoted again.


No. The post referered (I assumed) to generating HTML. There was no mention at all of persistence. If you do want a single framework in Java...]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:11:55 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:11:55 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:11:55 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Paul Beckford 2 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 In your zeal to defend Java, you have totally misquoted again....]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:52:12 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:52:12 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:52:12 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Steve Zara 3 let's think then http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:15:03 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:15:03 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:15:03 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Derek Breton 1 Re: MORE scalable or LESS scalable ? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 The support for scalability by Java, Ruby, PHP is rather correlated on how they support e.g. multithreading. In this case it is quite clear who is the winner....]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:53:46 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:53:46 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:53:46 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 John Brand 2 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
I don't think the answer is to limit the flexibility of the language. The answer is to be smart and pragmatic about using the language features. Don't let really freaking smart people go off the deep...]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:01:28 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:01:28 -0500 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:01:28 -0500 Nov 16, 2006 Paul Beckford 4 MORE scalable or LESS scalable ? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:48:34 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:48:34 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:48:34 -0500 Nov 15, 2006 Derek Breton 5 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
I don't think the answer is to limit the flexibility of the language. The answer is to be smart and pragmatic about using the language features. Don't let really freaking smart people go off the deep...]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:26:15 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:26:15 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:26:15 -0500 Nov 15, 2006 Steve Zara 5 Re: re: metaprogramming/ruby http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=43020
I don't think the answer is to limit the flexibility of the language. The answer is to be smart and pragmatic about using the language features. Don't let really freaking smart people go off the deep...]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:51:06 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:51:06 -0500 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:51:06 -0500 Nov 15, 2006 Aaron Evans 6