Thijs Lensselink's Blog » Programming http://lenss.nl Webdevelopment and stuff... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:48:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Is PHP an Application http://lenss.nl/2008/08/is-php-an-application/ http://lenss.nl/2008/08/is-php-an-application/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:50:58 +0000 Thijs Lensselink http://lenss.nl/blog/?p=103 At the office here they are trying to make a portfolio about the stuff we build. The strange thing is they also want to add a list of day to day applications we use. The question came up if we need to add PHP to the list. One of our Delphi/Pascal programmers thought adding the Delphi programming language would be good. I argued that Delphi is not an application but a programming language. Turns out we have a different view on this.

While we build almost every web related bit in PHP. i don’t see it as an application. And application is a layer between the low level computer and the user. The application does what the user wants to preform on the computer. An application can be anything from a simple text editor to a full blown IDE.

And all these applications have one thing in common. They are written in programming languages. Without programming languages there would not be any applications. O well. just my point of view :)

UPDATE*

Ok so i had a good discussion with one of the other Delphi guys. And seems we talk different about the same subject. As i work soly on PHP. PHP is my programming language. And it’s also the interpeter living on the server. So really it’s both an application and a programming language. Now i understand what the Delphi guys meant.

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