On 10/24/06, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mentioned that you dislike PHP. > I would be curious to learn your reasons for this.
If you look back at the history of PHP, it was created so that "non-programmers" can easily program. Well, if you want to see the results of a non-programmer writing scripts, go google "Not Matt's Scripts" and read the reason it was created. Then look again at the library of PHP scripts out there, and consider them in light of Not Matt's Scripts. Then, go look in bugtraq and see what's the most common package/backend that gets reported. Then do a quick google using terms "PHP", "security" and "issues". It is not impossible to write secure software with PHP, from what I understand, but the previous versions actively do not help you that way. The claim I've heard is that PHP5 tries to address some of these issue. How successful, I have no idea. Now consider OpenBSD's developers and userbase - what is the most important thing to us? Correctness. How does it fit with PHP's mindset? Or vice versa? The recommendation is python (or at least, if I ever want to pick up programming, it'll be python).
