Personal highlights:
Talking about the rationale against PHP compilers:
The not uncommon perception of PHP as being "fast":I’ve heard the argument "you don’t need a compiler, since PHP is rarely the bottleneck" for many years. I think its complete bollox. But I wrote a compiler for PHP, so I would say that.
You should consider also that PHP is considered relatively fast. Its not — the interpreter is dog-slow
Why we choose PHP over lower level languages:
Refers to a comment left on the blog post in question, which the author then edited:They like PHP, are productive in it, and any time spent arsing around in C is wasted when there’s a website falling apart and a long list of features due yesterday.
IMO, well worth a read!Actually, this guy said the opposite, but in such a dickish way that I decided to childishly write over it. If "a fellow student" wants to make his point without acting like a prick, I'm happy to listen to criticism.