php comments

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:22:20 -0500, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> [subject modified - PHP isn't OT]
> 
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:29:15PM -0700, Collins Richey took 21 lines to write:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:45:12PM -0800, Net Llama! took 61 lines to write:
> >
> > [ snipped from Bizarre Name Resolution ]
> >
> > < ugh.  ColdFusion is such a PoS.  Take the worst aspects of PHP & ASP and
> > < you get ColdFusion.
> >
> > I've never used ColdFusion, so you could be right.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity. What are the worst aspects of PHP? I've always
> > liked it for web development.
> 
> It's too easy to write spaghetti. Think "write-only" code. Lately, PHP is
> trying to be all things to all people, which will utterly crap it out. All
> that's left is to implement a complete OS kernel in PHP and they'll all
> have to move on to something new. ;-)
> 

So, it's the emacs of the future (it's an os without a usable editor)?
<grin> I don't see that it's any easier to write spaghetti than with
perl or python. Most of the perl code I've written over the years is
definitely "write-only" - a book with seven seals after 3 months.

Actually, the new things I've seen in PHP5 are positive improvements -
more complete OO structure and better xml/html packages.


-- 
 Collins