You're right, but it's a strawman argument as I never said that. "it's incredibly well used, but it has faults" is nearer the mark.
There's always lots of PHP hating going on from language snobs, mostly from people with toy projects in the latest language du jour (was Ruby, then Node, Scala, now Clojure and Go). Fact is PHP, for all its faults,…
Yes, though regression to the mean might suggest that they won't be so lucky in future.
or Salesforce Chatter?
They're not. The baseline probability of profitability for these types of companies is incredibly small. However, the potential profit that you might make for any one of these companies is extremely high (usually by…
What a silly post.
From an engineering perspective you're probably correct. However, from a commercial perspective (be it long-term support, business continuity, cost of developers/support) PHP is one of the best solutions.
Mostly they don't. The payment provider stores this and provides that and the truncated PAN (the card number with digits masked by asterisks). One of the things you pay payment providers for is for taking on the risk of…
You're right, but it's a strawman argument as I never said that. "it's incredibly well used, but it has faults" is nearer the mark.
There's always lots of PHP hating going on from language snobs, mostly from people with toy projects in the latest language du jour (was Ruby, then Node, Scala, now Clojure and Go). Fact is PHP, for all its faults,…
Yes, though regression to the mean might suggest that they won't be so lucky in future.
or Salesforce Chatter?
They're not. The baseline probability of profitability for these types of companies is incredibly small. However, the potential profit that you might make for any one of these companies is extremely high (usually by…
What a silly post.
From an engineering perspective you're probably correct. However, from a commercial perspective (be it long-term support, business continuity, cost of developers/support) PHP is one of the best solutions.
Mostly they don't. The payment provider stores this and provides that and the truncated PAN (the card number with digits masked by asterisks). One of the things you pay payment providers for is for taking on the risk of…