Re: [PHP] pop3 functions

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Nopes i read you correctly, yours was a complaint against c.

andu wrote:

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.
         

       

     

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