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It's not ivory tower for all of us. In my case it all boils down to simple discomfort. Writing PHP code is painful. Reading PHP code is painful. Fixing bugs in
by zaphar 14y ago
It's not ivory tower for all of us. In my case it all boils down to simple discomfort. Writing PHP code is painful. Reading PHP code is painful. Fixing bugs in PHP code is painful.
I don't write rants about it but that's just because I left the language behind years ago and never looked back. But if I had to write for my job? Yeah I'd write a rant every other month probably. I would need some kind of outlet for all that pain.
It looks like in Jeffs article his rant was sparked by having to take a close look at php again and all that pain just bubbled back up.
- agentargo 14y agoSpot on.
- chez17 14y agoI in no way meant to suggest that any criticism of PHP should be considered 'ivory tower'. I thought I was clear in my opinion that PHP is not perfect. I disagree that writing PHP code is 'painful'. It's perfectly fine for countless developers. Also, again, don't blame the tool for people who use it properly. If you think that it is literally impossible to write good code in PHP than you are being ivory tower.
- zaphar 14y agoI never said it's impossible to write good code in PHP. I said it's painful. Don't conflate that with impossible. You may not feel pain when you write it but that doesn't mean other people don't.
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