The problem of PHP is it's a old & narrowed language. It been designed to run in as a Web Service dedicatedly, and of course limits it's potential.
It's just like no one had motive to make HTML turing-complete. A language dedicated as a web script is good enough as long as it output web page, right? :(
BTW:
> I claim that PHP’s simpler “think; edit; reload the page” cycle makes developers more productive.
Does this can be simulated by automatically recompile and restart the application? I don't think it can be an serious advantage here.
It's just like no one had motive to make HTML turing-complete. A language dedicated as a web script is good enough as long as it output web page, right? :(
BTW:
> I claim that PHP’s simpler “think; edit; reload the page” cycle makes developers more productive.
Does this can be simulated by automatically recompile and restart the application? I don't think it can be an serious advantage here.