The KurtWerks Tinfoil Hat

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 06:28 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > ...has been bested. This article is from 19 November last year. I can't
> > imagine how I manage to miss it:
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/149242
> >
> 
> Following the links, I found myself at perens.sourcelabs.com looking
> over the forecasts for 2006.  The last item cuaght my eye (Trouble
> ahead for PHP) not because I don't like PHP for all the things Bruce
> mentions, but the fact that it's a perfect example of "if you have
> trouble predicting the future, predict the past".  I still vividly
> remember the horrors involved in the PHP 3-4 upgrade debacle until
> they could make versions 3 and 4 play nice together.  If this article
> is on track (I suspect it is), looks like yet another upgrade debacle
> is in the offing for 5-6 trying to fix the security problems.
> 
> Guess Perl will start seeing more adherents (for me, it's more
> flexible and more secure anyway).

And python. And maybe it is time to reconsider Tcl. Great HTML/HTTP
integration.
--
Roger