On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:49:43 +0600 raditha dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > andu wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:40:31 -0500 > > Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Those weird function names are taken straight from C. Blame the > >>inventors of C. PHP is partly intended to be easy to learn for C > >>programmers. > > > > > > I'm wondering how many php users are C programmers... > > Can only blame the php inventors for using a bad model. > > Just because you cannot understand something does not mean it's bad. Sounds like you're talking about yourself, I never said C was a 'bad' language, I was complaining about the functions names in php, if you care to read more carefully. My point was that when creating a language you have the freedom to shape the 'vocabulary' any way you want (more or less) and it is common sense to do it so that it's easily usable by a variety of users. > Your mail arrived to this mailing list through several mail nodes > writted purely in C. > > > > > > >>- Ken > >> > >>At 02:15 PM 8/16/2003 -0400, andu wrote: > >> > >>>I take the opportunity to express my 2 major problems I found with > >>>php in the 2 months I've been using it. > >>>First is the naming of functions (whoever was the illiterate one > >who>>invented them) definitely not meant to be remembered or to > >represent>>what they actually do. It's a shame to have to fill our > >minds with>>such garbage: strcasecmp, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, > >strcspn, stripos,>>stristr, strspn, strstr, to take just a few. A > >programming language>>has already its problems for not being natural, > >no need to make it>>even more so. Second, it the array overkill. > >>>Nevertheless, I love it. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > > Raditha Dissanayake > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ > Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with Graphical User Inteface. > just 150 Kilo Bytes > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- Andu -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
