On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:07 -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just curious but why was PHP not brought up in the debate? > > It's widely used, relatively respectable language, and there seems to > > be a hot market right now for PHP programmers, add that to the Java > > skills and your talking a pretty good paying job. > > Relatively respectable amongst people who aren't particularly > concerned with good language design, perhaps. It's a hack of > monumental proportions; an undead example of the 'design by accretion' > philosphy, but without the smart people that Perl had. It should have > remained 'Personal Home Page' and left programming to languages that > were designed for programming.
Brothers and sisters, can I get an "amen"?
The only widely used languages I've seen that are worse than PHP are VB
and COBOL, and you could probably change my mind about COBOL.
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