On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:09 -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > It's okay to have a soft spot in your heart for PHP because it was your > first exposure to web dev or whatever. I have the same nostalgia for > Turbo Pascal. But don't confuse that with thinking that PHP is actually > a good language.
State the reasons why PHP is not a good language. I'll start: - no variable declarations - non-secure legacy stuff is often enabled by default ($postvars for ex) Of course #2 is not an issue anymore and #1 is moot because all the good languages seem to have this feature too. Reasons why VB6 sucks - Overly verbose - Not truly compiled - Has object-oriented syntax, but is not object-oriented - no pointers - variable declaration is optional Of course VB.net fixes almost all of these points, although some are merely personal preference. So if your reasons for saying php is a bad language come from your own personal preferences, then we can't say php sucks. I dislike Java strongly for various reasons, but they are almost all mostly personal preferences. Therefore I cannot say Java sucks with any authority. > > -Jonathan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
