On Mar 5, 2014 7:26 PM, "Levi Pearson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Every language has some of these "misfeatures". PHP has far more than its share of them.
It's hard to argue this point but I think people don't give PHP enough credit. It's first incantation was just a couple of years after Mosaic was released. Many of the web friendly languages today have PHP to thank for paving the way (and highlighting the pot holes). Rasmus said himself while he was here that he was never a language expert, he received his baptism by fire. He just had an idea to simplify web development and the popularity of PHP at the time suggests that everyone agreed despite its shortcomings. Would I suggest PHP for a new project? Not likely. Trying to compare PHP to modern languages is like trying to compare COBOL to Go. They were born in different eras to serve different purposes. It's hard for me to bag on COBOL because of what it did for its time and the fact that it's still in use today for niche purposes. I could have just as easily written a similar rant as the blog post on the subject though. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
