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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Java and.NET, for example, are more enterprise-focused, giving them a more professional and formal tone. Java, C# and.net tend to be more stable, while languages such as Ruby on Rails or node.js Open Source Code. According to a report done by Github, the three most popular open source languages among the website’s 5.8

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. It's way easier to get your pages setup in these languages than by choosing Java alone.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) Part of the reason is that when I look at the CTOs, we see that the industries (games, entertainment, aerospace, retail, etc.), or focused on industry or type of company.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. The list goes on and on.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Is the technology open sourced? Does it support open protocols and standards? A great platform to consider is the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?