Kingsonly: Php is great and easy have done a review of dem all n I stick with php I would rite a book on it soon

Javanian:

why recursion over iteration?

olyjosh:

You 've just made a statement that i love to read and share in any web and programming forum section(However, No share button here "we will fix that... retweet" ).
Yes, it's time NL programming section start discussing complex Algorithm topics, find algorithm flaws and try to bring it forward for debate, developing home made SDKs. However, we should stop unnecessary discrimination of programming languages. Yes, you can review languages to know which one is best for you, find ratings online about them but you don't have to make some developers feel bad about what they 've known and that is working for them. Anyway, I see no reason why Seun reject php developers in most things he does, though I'm not a php developer,

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but i understand php, i do work with it and i ve seen beatiful and successful projects that i ve been done with it :
Facebook - the most used social networking site.
Joomla, drupal, wordpress among other top 10 open source scripts. etc

megaplaza: We did android game and shortest path algorithm

webdezzi: @OP,
ease of use of a language does not translate to it being better.
your goal is what counts.

If i need to write a project i intend to resell e.g an SMS web application.
i'll use PHP, because 90% of my target buyers will be able to install in via cpanel and more buyers=more $$$
building it in python wont be business smart.

if i need to write a streaming server, I'll be looking outside PHP.

Always analyse the goal of the project, pocket size($$$), development time, team involvement, expected traffic volume etc. before choosing a language for your project.

Nairaland was redesigned with growth in mind. and the owner, with his experience with python believes python is the way to go. That is his opinion, business, and belief.

A real programmer should carry out personal tests and based on the results, make decision.
Stay off blog posts by other developers, their passion for their interest may affect the test environment which may have been tweaked to support their points

megaplaza: Recursion over Iteration? It depends on the use case. Write a recursive factorial function that calculates factorial of say 1billion or 500million and lets see if you wont have stack overflow error. Recursion is not memory friendly and once you have a problem that involves recursive calls that runs into thousands you are bound to have a problem.

Sorry but that statement is technically wrong! To prove my point, how does your 'conjecture'(emphasis on conjecture) satisfy a recursive function that does not add a new stack frame to the call stack?

megaplaza: he didnt mention tail recursion ok I was talking about recursion not tail recursion, if you wwant to know that it's correct write just a recursive function to calculate factorial, i wasnt talking about where you use an accumulator that you pass around to hold intermediate and final result. Thanks