We should probably continue this.

PHP's real audience: 14 year old kids
Python's real audience: Basement dwelling jobless hacks
Ruby's real audience: No one, anymore

You: Troll.

QuickDraw's addons and new APIs were an extension, but core QuickDraw is required for the entire Mac UI. That was a system level API.

How to find a bad developer 101.

You know, I can hate Linux with the best of them, but.. I know that in Ubuntu, when you are in Firefox, and the first time you browse to a Flash site, it goes, "hey, want to install flash?", and it installs Flash once you click yes.

I'm failing to see the difficulty of that.

pedantic = on

It's the 'Carlson School of Management', not Carleton.

Facebook services out of memcached backed by a normalized storage system, and had it been designed by people who weren't dolts in the beginning, things would probably be different now anyway.

Now they have a PHP to C compiler. What.

Well, no, not entirely. Not many sites out there run purely from memcached. Memcached is a component of a larger architecture. The fact remains that technologies like NoSQL are usually used/desired by people who have no understanding of system architecture, design an inefficient application, and then blame the database software for their poor decisions.

I've never seen a JIT C compiler, so I can't fairly answer your question. That said, JIT still means there's a step before execution, so likely, yes.

It really depends on the operation and the code being run -- bad code is bad code, after all -- but in general, yes. Native code is generally(eight thousand asterisks here) faster than VM/Sandboxed/JITd/whatever code.

Not PHP.

Sorry, PHP is still an archaic, over keyworded language. Surefire way to find out if a company doesn't know what they're doing: they use PHP at the command line.

Which negates the statement from the coward up there.