On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent years > > so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs and do > > something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: > > > > The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write code. > > The bad thing about php is that they do. > > Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for a > minute that you used some php parser ... :p
It's not that old for an "old saying". I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using Google. And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan McKinnon.... -- Joost