Why PHP is a mess

written by jedi on August 6th, 2007 @ 09:33 PM

Some pretty good links about the PHP language and how retardated it is :

While some of these documents were written years ago, everything is still true, and even worse.

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  • simham_uk on 07 Aug 23:43

    Hi Frank

    I havent read the articles (my bad), but I have noticed more of your posts are dis’ing PHP (noticeably, since you started to play with Ruby). Since PHP has been around for a long time on big sites and I’m sure those articles are not that new, surely you’ve been aware of PHP’s downfalls for quite some time. I’m sure that any of the developers of the larger sites have realised the problems with PHP and either worked around them (in most cases) or changed their preferred language to something less of a menace? My point is, whats the point? I like your posts and value your opinion quite highly but really, nothing’s perfect, especially PHP, but I do enjoy coding with it (not that I do a lot of it these days) compared to anything else and I’m still stuck in PHP4 but thats ok cause I’m not a real programmer anyway!

  • minusf on 14 Aug 17:30

    i agree with simham. don’t beat the dead horse. don’t like it? don’t use it.

    some very nice projects are done in php, like txp and textile which i love (and seems like you too).

    everything is relative. compare it to VB and you’ll feel better.

    as a fellow openbsd person, i wish php was more done in an openbsd way, but it is not. most stuff isn’t, and you should know that even better.

  • hamza on 21 Aug 04:17

    while i agree php can be a mess sometimes, it is a matter of choice. every language has it’s own quirks and oddities, and if you are used to it, you can live with it. after a while you don’t even notice it :)

    and yes i use php on large applications and I also have been using php since it’s 3.0 days.

    cheers.

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