On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:58 -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > You find lots of blind-leading-the-blind--some guy figures out a problem > and 1000 guys copy him, regardless of how good a solution it is--because > none of them have enough experience or taste to know different.
The problem is that the blind aren't just leading from the middle, they're at the top designing the language. The PHP community was pretty much doomed from day one. Not because of the target market, but because the people shaping its future thought crap like addslashes() was a good idea. > Javascript is in exactly the same position. Javascript is, IMO, an > even more superior language than PHP. It's essentially a LISP with C > syntax. There's a handful of developers using Javascript that > understand that and produce beautiful code using the language's full > potential. The rest just copy and paste whatever they can find that > works for them. Javascript was created by a very smart developer under very unreasonable conditions. It languished unloved for a very long time, but it never created the same culture of truly braindead coders that PHP did. Compare WordPress and jQuery. I rest my case. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
