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> I think PHP gets a bad rep because there is a lot of bad code out there and people blame the language for the bad code I think in 5-10 years, in a post "ever
by pconner 12y ago
> I think PHP gets a bad rep because there is a lot of bad code out there and people blame the language for the bad code
I think in 5-10 years, in a post "everyone should learn to code" world, people will say some of the same things about Node.js or Rails that have been said about PHP for the last decade.
Beginners are going to make mistakes, and PHP was appealing to novice programmers (for a lot of the reasons listed in the article).
- imanaccount247 12y ago>people will say some of the same things about Node.js or Rails that have been said about PHP for the last decade. Really? Please tell me which of these things: http://webonastick.com/php.html http://webonastick.com/php.html applies to ruby. People have been complaining about javascript being shitty for just as long as javascript has existed.
- pconner 12y agoI don't know enough about Ruby to make any specific criticisms of the language. I just know that Ruby/Rails is being recommend to beginners (through Code Academy). I guess I could have said Python instead, but I don't think Python's web frameworks (Django, Flask, etc) have the market share that Rails does.
- imanaccount247 12y agoSo, you have no basis to support your claim, and admit you do not have the understanding required to make such a claim. Then why did you make it?
- pconner 12y agoI never said people would criticize Ruby because of the language itself. I said that it could POSSIBLY (note that this is pure speculation) get the same stigma as PHP because it draws in a lot of beginners.
- imanaccount247 12y agoAnd my point was that PHP does not get stigma because it attracts beginners. It gets valid criticism because it is horribly broken. That's why I showed you one of the many sites making those criticisms.