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If you want to learn the history, go read "the history of PHP". There's tons opf it, none of it relevant to people who want to program modern PHP. If you want

If you want to learn the history, go read "the history of PHP". There's tons opf it, none of it relevant to people who want to program modern PHP. If you want to actually use PHP, or any other language, and the interpreter/compiler throws up errors that _cannot be understood_ by "using your brain" then that is both a bad design decision that should have been changed way back when, _and_ is a current bug in your interpreter/compiler that you need to fix.

userbinator 4y ago
- 2143 4y ago
  > complaining about how everything should be "easy" Not the worst thing to complain about. Things that ought to be easy should be easy, so that time can be spent on solving hard problems. T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an example of something easy made deliberately hard. Thousands of people had to search for it (it adds up in the aggregate). And not only that, now there's mundane debates around whether or not it was a bad idea (such as right here, but also in the linked article). Further waste of time. Could've all been avoided.
- wruza 4y ago
  It’s not that hard, right. Nothing is really hard when an explanation is one search keyword away. But even a little bit becomes an issue when you fed up. This has nothing to do with skills and intelligence, the argument is emotional. If you don’t get fed up bit by bit in our profession or you work at the place where you have plenty of time to digest anything irrelevant, lucky you.
- usrbinbash 4y ago
  Because programming languages are tools, and tools should be as simple as possible, and as complex as they have to be. It's not the tools job to be needlessly complex. Tools exist so we can build complex things with them.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  How is writing things in random languages "intellectual" ? If I replace a random λέξη[0] in my comments with its equivalent in another language for no reason, is someone being "anti-intellectual" for thinking that's silly? [0]: "λέξη" means "word" in Greek.
- quickthrowman 4y ago
  > Again with the anti-intellectualism and laziness. Knowing that a two-word phrase in Hebrew maps to :: does not make you an intellectual, it means you know a bit of trivia.

userbinator 4y ago

2143 4y ago
> complaining about how everything should be "easy" Not the worst thing to complain about. Things that ought to be easy should be easy, so that time can be spent on solving hard problems. T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an example of something easy made deliberately hard. Thousands of people had to search for it (it adds up in the aggregate). And not only that, now there's mundane debates around whether or not it was a bad idea (such as right here, but also in the linked article). Further waste of time. Could've all been avoided.
wruza 4y ago
It’s not that hard, right. Nothing is really hard when an explanation is one search keyword away. But even a little bit becomes an issue when you fed up. This has nothing to do with skills and intelligence, the argument is emotional. If you don’t get fed up bit by bit in our profession or you work at the place where you have plenty of time to digest anything irrelevant, lucky you.
usrbinbash 4y ago
Because programming languages are tools, and tools should be as simple as possible, and as complex as they have to be. It's not the tools job to be needlessly complex. Tools exist so we can build complex things with them.
School-Cotton 4y ago
How is writing things in random languages "intellectual" ? If I replace a random λέξη[0] in my comments with its equivalent in another language for no reason, is someone being "anti-intellectual" for thinking that's silly? [0]: "λέξη" means "word" in Greek.
quickthrowman 4y ago
> Again with the anti-intellectualism and laziness. Knowing that a two-word phrase in Hebrew maps to :: does not make you an intellectual, it means you know a bit of trivia.