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I'm getting tired of these posts, but he brings up a good point. You only have to browse code on phpclasses.org (the most popular PHP code contribution site I

by xd 14y ago

I'm getting tired of these posts, but he brings up a good point. You only have to browse code on phpclasses.org (the most popular PHP code contribution site I think?) to see that there is something very very wrong with how PHP code is developed. Also the comments left in the PHP documentation don't seem to be moderated on code quality and a lot of bad practice has slipped in.

mootothemax 14y ago
You only have to browse code on phpclasses.org (the most popular PHP code site I think?) to see that there is something very very wrong with how PHP code is developed. To be fair, there are plenty of junk code sites out there. I'm amazed that http://www.codeproject.com http://www.codeproject.com still appears to be going strong.
melicerte 14y ago
That just means that there are bad programmers outside, not necessarily bad languages. Nevertheless, I don't know a single perfect programming language anyway, so you can write tons of article titled "what's wrong with xxx". But, apart driving a lot of readers to your blog, these posts do not help at all.
- NeilRShah 14y ago
  Amen.
- xd 14y ago
  I think I've been miss understood. My point wasn't that PHP is a bad language, I'm a hardened PHP dev and have been fighting it's corner here on HN for months. It really doesn't help PHP that a site as popular as phpclasses has such a large degree of inferior code.
ChiperSoft 14y ago
> the most popular PHP code contribution site I think? Popular in that everyone knows its name and knows not to ever use it. It's an absolutely awful site that's been awful for an entire decade. Most of the code being uploaded there these days is from indian and brazilian developers. All the good PHP libraries are on github and shared socially.