OT: Student suspended for using PHP

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Jose Lerebours (Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:54:45 -0700):
>
>> Check this out ...
>>
>> http://bbspot.com/News/2000/6/php_suspend.html
>
>AFAIK, it's an old joke.

On the other hand, using php often leads to security breaches and bad code.
One might consider it the 21st century equivalent of BASIC:

     It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
     students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
     programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
     regeneration.  -- Dijkstra

Bill
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