| Re: Name of page itself? [message #177253 is a reply to message #177245] |
Thu, 01 March 2012 17:05   |
Tim Streater
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In article <jio011$oor$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
> Scott Johnson wrote:
>> On 3/1/2012 4:57 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Tim Streater wrote:
>>>> Or it might generate no pages at all. None of mine do.
>>> Fabulous. Write only memory in the computer as well?
>>> Talking of the wrong tool for the job, I once heard of a man trying to
>>> build a battleship out of papier mache.
>> Seems sort of a shortsighted comment.
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>> What would you use for doing something for example as simple as MySQL DB
>> maintenance from a cron job?
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> C, script? anyone of a zillion better tools than PHP..
> Currently I use C.
>> And if the battleship is only a display model on a small shelf then
>> paper mache seems feasible.
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> You would be surprised actually at how tough a material it is.
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> Ok its not quite carbon fibre..laminate.. but actually if you had
> nothing else, it WOULD work.
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> Which is my point. PHP is not a particularly brilliant language. There
> are better, for all other applications that do NOT expect you to
> routinely switch between echoed output and simple-style coding.
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> Why not use one?
Because as I mentioned before I can no longer be arsed. PHP is quite
fast enough. I certainly don't want to fart about doing string handling
or manipulation in C.
--
Tim
"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689
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