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Your analogy makes is sound as if the problem with PHP is that it's old or lacking features, whereas the point of the original analogy is that it's poorly desig
by ptx 6y ago
Your analogy makes is sound as if the problem with PHP is that it's old or lacking features, whereas the point of the original analogy is that it's poorly designed. (Python is older than PHP, so it's not a question of being modern or not.)
- wccrawford 6y agoBy today's standards, old tools are poorly designed. At least, most of them. The one's that have stood the test of time aren't the bad ones. Those old tools still worked, just not as well as modern versions.
- ptx 6y agoMany good and well-designed languages are older than PHP (Scheme is from 1975!), so that cannot be the cause of PHP's poor design. Rasmus Lerdoff actually gave a great talk on why he created PHP and how it sort of accidentally turned into a programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmD1Q4FsXCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmD1Q4FsXCc