Andreessen: The future is PHP

[mandy]

Netscape founder predicts PHP will become dominant web technology:

Java and Flash have never lived up to their potential, and PHP will soon become the dominant Web technology, according to the browser pioneer

The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday

The new version 5.1 of PHP, scheduled to arrive in early November, will include a faster engine to process PHP scripts, ... It also will include a low-level "data abstraction layer" that makes it easier for PHP to communicate with different databases and a higher-level layer to interface with XML information produced and consumed by Web services.

Version 6, which is expected to arrive in 2006, will support Unicode character encoding, which supports a wide range of alphabets, simplifying creation of software that works in multiple international regions.

full article: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020...440,00.htm

[misteroriginal]

Interesting, but I'm not uninstalling Flash or throwing away my Java books yet.