>>In dealing with web applications and frontends to database or
>>even just a dynamic web site PHP has every bit the power and ability that
>>Java does and the development time is way down.
>
> Uh, how about threads. I know that you don't need them much but it sure
> would be nice to be able to do background processing.
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PHP doesn't support threads? I've always thought of Forking as
overkill where threads are light and elegant.
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