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The Natural Philosoph
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On 17/08/13 21:37, Fiver wrote:
> On 2013-08-17 22:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 17/08/13 20:55, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
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>>> I'm just saying that PHP should not have been designed that way.
>> sheesh how much time have you GOT???
>>
>> was PHP ever 'designed' ? It looks to me like a guy in a basement
>> decided to write an interpreter for active pages, and very time there
>> was a choice he either did what he felt was most useful, or tossed a coin.
>>
>> Nobody is forcing you to use it...
>>
>> ..that the way it is...
> You're right: PHP wasn't designed, it more or less "happened". But just
> because we're using an imperfect language doesn't mean we have to shut
> up about its weaknesses.
OTOH fixing those weaknesses would probably break every single legacy
app out there.
Look at the utter and total MESS that HTML got into with style sheets,
and completely different models in IE versus rest of the world.
you would probably have to do similar..so
<php5
would say ''do this the old buggy way'
and
<php6
or whatever would be 'go to new standard' mode.
but what happens to include files? Aeegghh!!
> Converting strings to integers instead of the
> other way around was an unfortunate choice. It's one of the pitfalls
> that regularly get people who are more used to other loosely typed
> languages (like me in this case).
>
> If you really want to see somebody with "too much time" to complain
> about PHP's idiosyncrasies, take a look at http://phpsadness.com/ .
> Quite an interesting collection, too, even if not everything on the list
> is new or surprising or even wrong.
well yes.
There were similar religious wars between Intel and Motorola chipsets
when we all coded in assembler. People complaining that intels registers
were quirky and not orthogonal, and all were used in slightly different
ways,. whilst other people claimed that was what made them so useful.
In the end you just learnt what they did, and got on with the job of
writing solid software for them, avoiding all the grey areas completely.
> regards,
> 5er
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