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Originally Posted by TerryP
I'm not sure a PHP to C++ compiler is an improvement over just writing it in C++ to start with, but I'll take their word for it :-o
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True, but he started off the post pointing out how simple PHP is to write and debug, and how quickly they can ramp up new developers due to the simplicity of the language. Given the immense volume of traffic that is riding on their systems, I'd assume you'd rather have the new engineers start with a simple language that's hard to mess up and have an experienced engineer write something that will translate it into clean C++, instead of letting the new guy write something that will leave them exposed to some elementary buffer overflow or something of that nature
Just my 2 cents.