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Perhaps it was not like this when PHP was created, but it surely has been for a long while now: Idiots are now PHP's target audience be it by design or by its o
by arde 14y ago
Perhaps it was not like this when PHP was created, but it surely has been for a long while now: Idiots are now PHP's target audience be it by design or by its own faults. So if Rasmus Lerdorf still maintains PHP then he should not get angry by the kind of users he chose and/or deserves.
- toyg 14y agoThat's a bit harsh. Like with Java or Perl, there's an enormous installed base of PHP apps which need maintaining and upgrading (and replacing, wherever possible); a lot of people end up inheriting systems they didn't build, and having to keep them up _ad libitum_.
- arde 14y agoSure, but those who inherit PHP systems may not belong to the PHP's target audience that I was referring to. Neither must all people who choose to use PHP necessarily idiots, because PHP does have some legitimate use cases. But all in all I don't think PHP maintainers can expect sanity from their users as a general population nowadays. I know it sounds harsh, and it probably is a bit judgmental on my part too, but I hope you get the idea.