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If turing is a programing language, PHP definately qualitifies. A scripting language is just a type of programming language. Do we call C a "compiled language", I don't think so.

It's a programming language, a server-side programming language to be correct

And we all know PHP > *

It's scripting language because PHP is interpreter. Its server side scripting language...

Yes, of cource!

Totall agree.. LOL!! hey.. so what it's a programming language or scripting language? isn't it giving you the same results? the only difference it's either compiled or not. anyway, whether is it compiled, it doesn't make a big difference about that. why bother debating about it?

icarus wrote:so are you programming scripts or are you scripting scripts?

is javascript a programming language? is java a programming language?

do you separate programming language and scripting languages on the fact if its compiled or just executed?

i dont care how it is called, i simply like it because its easy to get on it and you get instant results.

btw: what about a google fight?

programming php: 138 M results

scripting php: 40 M results

now i think differently of programming cause of all you guys

i think PHP is not a programming language.. cuz PHP is a scripting language... and i think everyone knows that...

It's a programming language, because it executes something that you have programmed before. Nothing else does C++, C or anything else.

But afterall I prefer python, it's so nice (but c++ is nice too, but doesn't have so nice standard libraries)

selket wrote:There have been a few threads in which this was discussed off topic. I thought I would just make a place to continue the debate.

-selket

Well, no it's not and there is no debate on that:

www.php.net wrote:What is PHP?

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

In short, scripting langauges are not compiled while programming langauges are.

Yup IMO it does...

PHP is like... personal home page, isn't it? I wouldn't consider HTML code to be a programming language, and since my understanding is that that's the mission of PHP, I wouldn't consider PHP to be a programming language either, even if it does have some prog-lang-ish characteristics. Beach balls have some similar characteristics to pomegranites, but that doesn't make a beach ball a fruit. Something like that.

for me is a programming language... for make scripts u need to program so it's a programming language

matthew.daniels wrote:PHP is like... personal home page, isn't it? I wouldn't consider HTML code to be a programming language, and since my understanding is that that's the mission of PHP, I wouldn't consider PHP to be a programming language either, even if it does have some prog-lang-ish characteristics. Beach balls have some similar characteristics to pomegranites, but that doesn't make a beach ball a fruit. Something like that.

Actually, PHP stands for 'PHP Hypertext Preproccessor' now. It has ever since version 3. HTML is very different from PHP. PHP can be used to generate HTML, but so can C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, and I've even seen COBOL used :shudders:. HTML is a markup language, like TeX, RTF, and XML. PHP is very much a programing language. If you have php-cli installed you can write a script and stick #!/usr/bin/php at the top and use it like any other programing language.

I think that php is a programming language...
Java too, but java script isn't, but I don't know how to explain why php and java is programming language and js isn't

selket wrote:There have been a few threads in which this was discussed off topic. I thought I would just make a place to continue the debate.

-selket

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