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My takeaway was that you should use what you're most productive in; even if there happens to be some inconsequential warts.
by jolan 16y ago
My takeaway was that you should use what you're most productive in; even if there happens to be some inconsequential warts.
- cheald 16y agoI hear you, but the way he expresses what he does has the net effect of making excuses for PHP and saying "Hey, it's okay that it's an entirely inconsistent language without fundamental features of other real languages because it's just a tool to solve a problem I had at one point, and I hack in new features as the problem-of-the-minute requires them". That's not a well-designed tool. That's a hammer glued to a screwdriver duct taped to a torque wrench welded onto a lawnmower. You can probably properly tension a timing belt with such a monster, but just because you can doesn't mean that it's the right (or most productive) tool. I'm very productive in PHP; that doesn't change the fact that I discovered I could be more productive in other languages that didn't actively frustrate my development progress due to being well-designed.