Rebuttle summary: * Isn't this how every language does it? -- Answer: No
* It's not the languages fault that people do it wrong! -- Answer: Yes, it often is. On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 14:57:30 Michael Torrie wrote: > On 03/05/2014 02:24 PM, Doran L. Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:30:06 -0700 > > > > Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > > > > I used to work with Alex (Eevee). He's an incredibly smart guy and when he > > first published this article, I found it incredibly well done. > > I just finished wasting a lot of time reading the so-called rebuttal on > devshed. You're right that Eevee is a very smart and articulate fellow > with a lot of experience in many languages to draw on. I found his > comments quite insightful. I have my own biases, but I found > ManianDan's arguments to be quite weak and more of an attack on Eevee > ("you don't understand weakly-typed languages"). Came off as defending > the indefensible. I don't think Eevee's goal was to beat ManiacDan into > submission, or to get him to change languages, but to have an honest > discussion about the problems with PHP, but I suspect that conversation > is really impossible to have about any language in a public forum. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
