On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Agreed, but that could also be partly because Javascript is in a much narrower space than PHP. The majority of Javascript snippets I've seen are as bad as the PHP--just not as many. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
