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[Kenneth Downs]

Jake McGraw wrote:
> Tim:
>
> You're not to fault, and the point about Java collections Vs array() 
> is pretty good, unfortunately, I never made it that far because I was 
> completely turned off by the "article", the exact text Tim was 
> referring to:
>
> James Anderson wrote: The really simple answer is that after the 
> release of php 5, php became the better language. Just one example -- 
> collections; php has one all purpose collection type which is an 
> array/hash/stack or queue depending on how you choose to use it, and, 
> as you can store any object or another array in the array it handles 
> any type of tree. Java on the other hand has:- ArrayList, 
> AttributeList, BeanContextSupport, CopyOnWriteArrayList, 
> CopyOnWriteArraySet, DelayQueue, EnumSet, HashSet, LinkedHashSet, 
> LinkedList, PriorityQueue, RoleList, RoleUnresolvedList, Stack, 
> TreeSet, Vector etc. etc. and this is only from the official 
> "java.util....." there are thousands of other "collection" classes out 
> there. Nearly of the functionality provided by this mass of classes is 
> available in php's 'Array()' type. And php does it faster!

This more or less sums up my entire purpose in using PHP.  And the 
philosophy behind that leads to numerous other features that makes it 
easier.


>
> - jake
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 12:26 PM, Tim Gales <tgales at tgaconnect.com 
> <mailto:tgales at tgaconnect.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jake McGraw wrote:
>     > Pure flame-bait and total non-article
>
>     sorry, I thought the part about Java's
>     multitudinous specialty  "collection" classes
>     versus using an 'Array()' type which is
>     simpler and faster was a valid point --
>     my mistake.
>
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