Tim Bray, of Sun Microsystems, set off a little bombshell with one slide from a presentation he gave at the International PHP Conference. The slide in question compares PHP, Rails, & Java on four separate criteria: Scaling, Dev Speed, Dev Tools, & Maintainability. Rails won on Dev Speed and Maintainability and PHP won the scaling contest!
The presentation even goes on to talk about the WS-* specs being too complex (he even borrowed DHH's WS-Deathstar slide). Who would have thought things like this would be coming out of the mouths of people at Sun? Can't say that I disagree... Fewer lines of more readable code should mean greater productivity and better maintenance. That seems like a no-brainer.
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