On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:35 -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Yeah, I know it doesn't stand for that officially anymore, but the > legacy is there. Using a hypertext preprocessor for unixioid scripting > sounds similarly braindead, though.
It's offensive, not not entirely braindead. PHP includes alot of libraries standard. For example DB and LDAP support. You can access databases and directories with other languages, but you usually have to install extra libraries first. Which is why there's a special version of PHP: php-cli. The real problem with PHP isn't that it's a "hypertext processor". The real problem is that it's a horribly messy, brain damaging language. It might have real scoped variables, but only recently did it add namespaces. Its built in DB functions are still a joke, and a trap for newbies. Etc. -- When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
