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The effort required to learn something better than PHP is not equivalent to learning everything about automobile engineering, its more like reading a maintenanc
by Sapient 14y ago
The effort required to learn something better than PHP is not equivalent to learning everything about automobile engineering, its more like reading a maintenance manual. Sooner or later, the guy who fixes his car in the middle of the road without knowing anything is going to replace his brake-pads with bits of wood he found on the sidewalk (Not really his fault, someone on a PHP forum has already labeled all the bits of wood as "brake pads")...
- joelangeway 14y agoA better analog than fixing a literal car might be changing the tire of a car which doesn't have any tires when it is parked but which instantiates some with the help of an instance of ITireFactory. Obviously it makes no sense for a car to use a tire factory instead of just having tires. That is exactly how everyone who prefers PHP feels about everything.
- Sapient 14y agoThere are far better solutions to this ITireFactory problem than PHP, which puts the tires directly onto the car, but forces you to buy a new car as soon every time you get a flat. Also, the tires are likely to explode every 16 left turns unless you know about the secret tire fixing button under the dash. It is true that PHP may save people a few hours in the beginning, but at what expense? How longer does it really take to get a noob running a Sinatra, web.py, dancer or something similar?
- entropy_ 14y ago"Everything else" does not resolve to "Java" or "C++"