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In "The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP", Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP really needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales so we can all live happily ever after.
I could not agree more.
At the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software last week, I was confronted with questions that could have easily been answered by refering to a paper like this. If a paper such as this existed.
In "Things That Have No Name", Kristian K��hntopp started to collect ideas that are partly related to this. But this is not enough for people outside of the PHP community, especially for people from academic communities. Not by a a long shot.
I would be glad to help with writing such a paper, although I am not a expert when it comes to large-scale PHP deployment. But I think I know how to present the relevant information to people outside the PHP community in the form of a technical paper. "Comparing PHP, Java, and ASP for Web Application Development" and "PHP at Yahoo!" could be good starting points to find topics that should be discussed in the paper.
So here is my plea: Put your ideas for such a paper into the comments of this blog posting.