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well. I inferred "inferior" from the fact that you were "disgusted" (your word) by the presence of an easter_date function. I assumed that you would not be disg
by pilif 17y ago
well. I inferred "inferior" from the fact that you were "disgusted" (your word) by the presence of an easter_date function. I assumed that you would not be disgusted about other languages that don't provide the function.
If one is disgusted by one thing and not by another, it's IMHO save to assume that the non-disgusting one is superior to the disgusting one.
If I have misunderstood you, I apologize.
- encoderer 17y agoHere's the disgusting part. I'm far more fluent in PHP than your average PHP developer. Where I work we face real problems of scale and use PHP effectively. And even with all this, after years of developing in PHP (among other languages), I happen to just stumble across random functions. In a structured library (like, say, .Net) I'd know to look in a specific place for a certain type of functionality, and if it's supported it's going to be there. There is absolutely no benefit to a large corpus of functions being included in the language core like that. All of your arguments--about officially sanctioned solutions with known quality control--would be satisfied just as well by an official, structured library shipped alongside, but not inside, the language core.