Jonathan Street's Blog: Is PHP good enough for science?

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Thu, 03/20/2008 - 09:32

On his blog today, Johnathan Street poses a question - is PHP "good enough" to be used in the scientific community?

There is an accelerating trend in Biology to make data and tools available via web interfaces.

In my opinion this is an environment where PHP excels and yet all the literature I've seen discussing the development of these services uses Perl or occasionally Java.

He came across two science-related PEAR packages that...

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