>>I have been using PHP for about 6 months now ( I started using foxbase in 1988) and I can tell you that PHP is much simpler for web and has way more string handling capabilities than VFP. Don't get me wrong, I still like using VFP for client work but I would never go back to using if for web.
Fair enough. The fact that php is an unthreaded script that doesn't get compiled at all, shows that the concerns people raise to justify tool selection may be good in a debate but may not matter so much in the real world, since PHP has been a driving force behind an awful lot of the internet out there. So it'll be interesting to see how much uptake there is of Hip Hop that converts some php to static-typed C++.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
