On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 20:37:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 12:12:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
Would you guys please stop calling PHP a language. JS and PHP
are not languages, they are a fiddly feckin mess, which
accounts for their high adoption rate. Sigh. Please, no
gainsaying now, no "Yes, buts".
You may say that, yet, it both are widely used. There are
reasons for that, and people are idiot is not one of them.
It is a big part of the reasons.
PHP scales. This is why people use it. And this is why people
will continue to use it. This is why Facebook, wikipedia,
Baidu, wordpress and many others are using it. There is always
a reason, and if you don't understand it, you are doomed to
miss the point.
Whut? PHP scales?! If you simply mean that it is easily coded
by lowest-common denominator programmers, so it's easy to throw a
bunch of those low-skilled coders on the job, then perhaps that's
why you end up with monstrosities like this:
http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so
http://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/
Potshots at your employer aside- ;) I could have done the same
for Wikipedia and Wordpress, don't know much about Baidu- I'd
honestly like to know how you think PHP scales, because it's
success has always been a perfect example of Gresham's law to me:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2015-06.html#e2015-06-14T09_17_33.htm
