On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:14:13PM +0000, James Laver wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:06 PM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think sometimes I'd rather work with code that is just plain bad > > because it's written by self-taught PHP-heads, than code that is a > > crawling horror because it's written by terribly clever C or perl > > people. > > This week I am mostly hating the source code for wget. > At least the experts know what they're doing to begin with
You'd think so. Maybe they do. But they don't necessarily know *why* they're doing it, or think about the poor bastard who has to work with their code and fix it later. And anyway, I said terribly clever people, not experts. > I'm-a-designer-who-knows-php idiots They are NOT idiots. They are, perhaps, ignorant, but there's nothing wrong with being ignorant. > At least in perl people standardise on DBI with placeholders (or > something built on top of it) because it's lazier to just go with the > flow (and thus at least they're saved from SQL injection). Ah-hahahahahahahaha -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery