The PHP Singularity 622
An anonymous reader writes "Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror has a post about the awfulness of PHP — or, rather, a post about posts about the awfulness of PHP. He points out that PHP has been the whipping boy for the developer community for years, and while everybody seems happy to complain about it, nobody seems willing to do anything about it. He writes, 'From my perspective, the point of all these "PHP is broken" rants is not just to complain, but to help educate and potentially warn off new coders starting new codebases. Some fine, even historic work has been done in PHP despite the madness, unquestionably. But now we need to work together to fix what is broken. The best way to fix the PHP problem at this point is to make the alternatives so outstanding that the choice of the better hammer becomes obvious.'"
Recursive? (Score:5, Funny)
And now, a post about a post about posts about the awfulness of PHP.
Which would make these comments posts about a post about a post about posts about the awfulness of PHP.
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Recursion: First you curse, then you curse again.
Re:if php is broken what is javascript? (Score:2, Funny)
Client-side misery.
Thats it! I am leaving (Score:5, Funny)
Going to Perl where I can get a simple concise syntax that is always the same among different programmers and does not have any idiosyncracies and enforced consitancy everywhere.
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Re:Recursive? (Score:5, Funny)
BING = BING is not Google.
Re:Recursive? No, very iterative. (Score:5, Funny)
C is so awful that nowbody would dare use it for any serious stuff, like kernels or drivers!!!
Re:It's always been obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Python has *always* been obviously better than PHP (or perl, etc.) But if you have no skills, you look for the easiest path: the goal is to get the project going.
If your expertise is Perl, climbing the Python learning curve, gentle as it may be, isn't attractive, and becomes less so as your available time to engage in such things narrows. And so your project $sucks @terribly $$ and looks like APL
This is how I can tell that you're not an APL programmer. APL programs are beautiful. Perl looks as if your mom picked up the phone while you were using a BBS.