MJ Ray writes

> Our experience is that PHP hosting environments vary much more, most
> PHP code is a mess 

  I guess that is a feature of the code written in PHP, rather
  than of the language itself. Some languages make it harder to
  write bad code. No language makes it impossible. 

  I think that the single critical question to ask about any
  development in a digital library environment is it's ability
  to deal with Unicode and it's related standards such as UTF-8.
  Last time I looked at it, PHP had problems is that area.
  These problems will bedevil anything you write in PHP, no 
  matter how elegant you code. 


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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