On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:36:10 -0600
Jeff Schroeder <[email protected]> wrote:

> PHP doesn't contribute to poor coding practices any more than Perl
> does. Or Java.  Or Ruby, or Python, or C, or Lisp, or COBOL.
> Inexperienced and inept programmers contribute to poor programming
> practices.  It has nothing to do with the language.

Some languages let you do anything you want, like Forth and assembler:
good code, bad code, mediocre code, excellent code, atrocious code.

Others only let you write mediocre code. Ok, you *can't* write terrible
code, but then again you can't write excellent code either. And so you
will never learn to write excellent code. Such languages cripple the
mind by enforcing the concept that mediocre is the end goal.

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