Re: Fun-O Out of Business?

[address@hidden (Erann Gat)]

In article <200209190813.g8J8DP3R028496@life.ai.mit.edu>, Rob Myers
<robmyers@mac.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 03:15 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
> 
> > In article <gat-1809021510540001@k-137-79-50-101.jpl.nasa.gov>,
> >  gat@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) wrote:
> >> I am disappointed to learn that your ecommerce machinery is written in 
> >> PHP
> >> and not Dylan.  It makes me wonder if you really believe in your own
> >> product.
> >
> > Don't you think that's a bit harsh?
> 
> I'd say it's a whole harsh, but I'm sure the poster didn't mean to troll.

Indeed I did not.  And in fact I had neglected to consider the possibility
that they didn't write the PHP code, but just inherited it from somewhere
(though I am skeptical that ecommerce code can simply be inherited without
substantial customization).  If that turns out to be the case then I would
withdraw my comments.

> Fun-Dev has sockets and ODBC support and can be used to make DLLs as 
> well as standalone applications, so there's absolutely no reason why it 
> shouldn't be used for web work.

Yes, that is precisely (half of) my point (the other half being that
despite this fun-o chose to use PHP for some reason, and from the point of
view of an outside observer this doesn't reflect well on their product.  I
had the same criticism of Franz for a while when their site was served by
Apache instead of Allegroserve.)

E.