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.
PHP is both easy in the good and bad way.
The good way: being able to add a tag to an existing HTML page, rename
it, and it works. Also, drag & drop deployment.
The bad way: REGISTER_GLOBALS (now deprecated, thank fuck) and the
many other foot-seeking missiles.
PHP is not an argument against making things easy or usable. It's an
argument against guiding the beginner down a route that will drop them
(and everyone else on the same machine) in a deep hole without them
realising.
Corrolary hate: FOSS authors who equate fast, easy software with
insecure, inflexible messes.
-- Yoz
