On Thursday, August 06, 2015 02:59:09 PM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 22:47:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent > > >>> years so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs > > >>> and do something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: > > >>> > > >>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write > > >>> code. > > >>> The bad thing about php is that they do. > > >> > > >> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for > > >> a minute that you used some php parser ... :p > > > > > > It's not that old for an "old saying". > > > I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using > > > Google. > > > > > > And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan > > > McKinnon.... > > > > Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to > > lots of people. > > > > About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-) > > Run the same search for perl - it's probably more appropriate than php and > may find older samples of the same ol' saying.
Nope, can't find a single hit with either line. Also would surprise me, as the largest part of the massive amount of bad code (mostly copy/pasted from each other) arrived after PHP appeared. -- Joost
