Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:03:24 -1000 From: r00t <r00t@ellicit.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php5-5.2.11_1 Vulnerabilities Message-ID: <4B3B5DAC.20102@ellicit.org> In-Reply-To: <4B3611EB.3060306@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4B344459.4020202@ellicit.org> <a78074950912242130w513306d7jadd16da59cc1009c@mail.gmail.com> <4B35FC4C.7050100@unsane.co.uk> <20091226123953.GA8864@icarus.home.lan> <4B3611EB.3060306@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 12/26/09 3:38 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> I say this as both someone who does web hosting and codes in PHP. I >> often wonder what the point of PHP is given Markup::Perl[3]'s existence. > > Ooooh... another way of embedding perl into HTML. That makes <... counts > on fingers ...> loads. > > Not to mention all those solutions employing Ruby or Java/jsp or > Python. And > the Google web tools stuff, where you write pure Java and it compiles > into the > appropriate mix of server side Java objects and Ajax enabled web pages. > > Or the distressingly under-appreciated WebObjects stuff from Apple, > which may > have been around a few years but is still pretty revolutionary (although > not > free). > > No -- there are many, many alternatives to PHP. Trouble is, there are > many, > many web-monkeys out there that cannot conceive of using anything else. > And > if you propose to a client writing a web app in any other language they > get all > bothered because it's "non standard" and because "we can find PHP coders > easily". That's a self fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one. A lot > like proposing any > other OS than Windows... Now who would do a thing like that? > > Cheers, > > Matthew (who thinks HTML::Mason is where it's at...) > suhosin-patch-5.2.11-0.9.7.patch.gz is now in ports so this issue is closed.
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