[techtalk] Servlets vs. PHP

[Becky L. Norum]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Julie Meloni wrote:

> As far as "faster & more efficient" from a technological standpoint,
> it's six of one (half dozen of the other).  In my completely
> unscientific internal benchmarking, they're equal in speed, within a few
> microseconds here and there, and I don't count that.  (Concurrent users,
> single users, etc etc....both equal).  
> 
> As far as "faster & more efficient" from a coding standpoint, it depends
> on who's doing the coding.  If your group of programmers consists of
> Java developers, then let them make servlets if that's what they're
> comfortable creating.  If your group of programmers consists of
> programmers who are PHP developers, let them do PHP.   If your group of
> programmers haven't actually ever programmed anything before, and are
> picking a language to start with, the learning curve for PHP is a heck
> of a lot faster to get around than the learning curve for Java.  
> 

Julie,

Thanks for the input.  Since the team of developers is at this time um... 
me and me alone, I think I'll be sticking with Java for the time being,
since I have some familiarity with it and there is no distinct advantage
to one or the other.

-- Becky