On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> It's like an argument my boss and I had: I said that PHP is a bad language, >> and >> he said that it can't possibly be a bad language because he's able to >> write good code in it. > > PHP is a disaster of a language. But, like any bad tool, a good craftsman > can produce a quality product with it. Wikipedia is written in PHP. So, > apparently, is gmane :-) As much as I loathe working with PHP, I have to > admit that if you can build a product like Wikipedia on it, it must have some > redeeming qualities.
Right. And the fact that Wikipedia can be written in PHP is not itself proof that it's a good language. You and Rusi are fighting against GG's faults and not entirely succeeding, as your paragraphs come out unwrapped; that's possibly the least of the GG woes, but it's one of the first clues that someone's replies are likely to be double-spaced. A good tool does most of your work for you. A bad tool has to be fought every inch of the way. Sometimes a tool is good but wrongly chosen (don't use DeScribe Macro Language for writing a GUI - drop to REXX for that!), but some tools have no good use at all. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
