On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:07:43PM +0100, demerphq wrote: > On 12/27/06, Earle Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 26/12/06, Adam Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think one major reason PHP "won" is that it's so stupidly easy that > >> it allows bad programmers to write web apps that, although horribly > >> ugly, at least work (in some sense of the word). > > > >Rule of thumb: if it's stupidly easy, it's easily stupid. > > Corollery: if its simple for newbies its going to be annoying and > maybe crippled for old hands.
Design a language for newbies, and only newbies will use it. (From the original: design a system fools can use, and only fools will use it). Abigail
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