ZAT – notes on Z to A Travel

A few weeks ago I ran into an old co-worker (a fairly well known computer expert). He is working on a new web app, and it was interested that his team decided to program it in PHP, just like we did for ZAT. It is funny that, as software engineers, we feel a little guilty programming in a language like PHP, but there is something about PHP that just makes it appropriate for building applications like this.

I am wondering if it is possible to design a language that keeps the power and flexibility of PHP, but without the warts.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/?ex=1166504400&en=89c1ba75fe6be330&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craiglist, gave a talk at the UBS global media conference in New York, in front of a crowd heavy with investment bankers. They could not understand. The meeting was described as “a culture clash of near-epic proportions”.

I posted a comment on the above article — number 110 if you can read that far down the page!

–wm