On Feb 11, 2008 2:04 PM, Jennifer Charrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are plenty of developers out there who would call you stupid for > using PHP. CIO Magazine for one, instigators of the most recent flame > war: http://www.cio.com/article/176250 >
Hey, you don't even have to check out that link or get that magazine, I'll tell you that for free ( and, of course, unsolicited, as I'm sure everyone can confirm ). That being said, religiously denying or loving any application, language, methodology, database, etc, etc, can be fairly ridiculous (unless it's Python, of course). But if debate can be kept civil, and you're at least intelligent enough to listen to reason, so-called "flame wars" can be productive. Especially on UPHPU. We have this particular flame war every 6 months or so; the MySQL people holler about version 5 fixing a bunch of the problems MySQL traditionally has had, the Postgres people clamor about how read speeds aren't everything and how MySQL clustering absolutely sucks, and the Oracle people aren't here because they're on the Java list. Programmers tend to get heated about their favorite new tool -- the secret isn't to attempt to completely prohibit flame wars, but try to divert them into a productive exchange. And, I'm glad to say, UPHPU is excellent at this. It's why, even though PHP isn't my favorite language ( we all know I hate it ), I still maintain my UPHPU mail subscription and participate in conversations on #uphpu (granted, we're usually arguing about politics). So, with all that being said, PHP droolz, Python roolz, vim > emacs, and Gentoo sucks ( so does OS X ). Woo hoo! -- - http://stderr.ws/ "Insert pseudo-insightful quote here." - Some Guy _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
