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He's right though - most of the arguments about what PHP is lacking are outdated and obsolete by the massive community undertaking. Most of the modern day argu
by Navarr 12y ago
He's right though - most of the arguments about what PHP is lacking are outdated and obsolete by the massive community undertaking.
Most of the modern day arguments are just bikeshedding arguments. (Function names are inconsistent, etc.) which is, yes, stupid that we've managed to maintain mistakes for decades - in the end it doesn't matter.
What matters is being able to get things done, and that's something PHP developers are fantastic at - even if some of them output the worst code imaginable.
- pavel_lishin 12y ago> What matters is being able to get things done, and that's something PHP developers are fantastic at - even if some of them output the worst code imaginable. I had a car, once, where the driver's side seatbelt would pop out if I put on the brake, or leaned forward. But hey, what mattered was that the car got me from point A to point B, therefore it was a perfectly great car!
- dreamfactory2 12y agosounds like it was functional, nobody died, and better than any alternatives you had
- pavel_lishin 12y ago> nobody died Thanks to luck more than anything; I used it to regularly commute between Austin and Dallas, a 300 mile drive. The thing is, I didn't have to commute, and I was living in Austin at the time - and I worked from home. I could have elected to get around town via bus (slow, but doable) or bike (with a helmet, almost certainly safer than a seatbelt-less car). I should have sold that damned thing much sooner and replaced it with a moped.
- datashovel 12y agoPerhaps apply for a job as a PHP developer. Pay is good, and so you probably will be able to get a new car :)
- pavel_lishin 12y agoYou joke, but I was working as a PHP developer at the time. :)
- datashovel 12y agoThat's something that's not talked about often enough. Good developers working at bad companies :) In the sense that those companies don't appreciate their developers in the same ways good tech companies do.
- Navarr 12y agoThat is what mattered! The programmer (the driver - you) should have fixed the bug when he noticed it. It wasn't a problem with the language, just the implementation. PHP is not well known for language-level security issues. It's well known for logic-level security issues.