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Thanks! I was tired of all the language-bashing out there and wanted to look at it objectively.

• mgkimsal 16y ago
  Well, you've done so. Personally, one of the reasons I think PHP will continue to do well is the accessibility which is helped with the basic documentation. Can't remember how something works? php.net/foo. http://php.net/strpos http://php.net/strpos - you get the 'official' docs, along with wiki-ish input from the community about gotchas, workarounds, extra tips, etc. Makes a big difference to many people compared to http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Strin..., for example.
  • ceejayoz 16y ago
    Yeah, PHP's docs are one of the truly phenomenal bits about the language. I've yet to see another language get this as right as PHP does.
  • narrator 16y ago
    PHP will continue to do well because it is the most extreme example of the "Worse is Better" (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html) design style. "Worse is Better" software designs (e.g Unix, C) have shown to be far more popular in the market than more elaborately designed systems (Common Lisp, etc).
  • docgnome 16y ago
    The comments are something I avoid about PHP docs. There are lots of bad PHP programmers who feel the need to help everyone else by posting their terrible implementation of X which people then just blindly copy... I like the idea, but in practice, I don't think it works very well.