PHP (was Re: website maintenance gig available)
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:12:11PM +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: Isn't 'PHP skill' an oxymoron? On this topic, dear lazyweb, er list. My search engine skills fail me. Isn't there some quote, roughly you don't program PHP, you ??? it until it works, possibly attributed to Randal Schwartz? Does anyone know the one I'm failing to describe? And the citation? [And if I'm seen as maybe being unfair on a language which takes the worse-is-better approach to dazzling new depths [Larry Wall] I point you all to http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=php+vulnerabilityword2=perl+vulnerability ] Nicholas Clark
Re: PHP (was Re: website maintenance gig available)
On 3 August 2011 14:55, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Isn't there some quote, roughly you don't program PHP, you ??? it until it works, possibly attributed to Randal Schwartz? you don't code php. you merely edit it until it works. - merlyn Does anyone know the one I'm failing to describe? And the citation? I can't find a citation. Only pfig's signature. Presumably Pedro knows where he is quoting from. /joel
Re: PHP (was Re: website maintenance gig available)
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 13:55, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Isn't there some quote, roughly you don't program PHP, you ??? it until it works, possibly attributed to Randal Schwartz? There's a little-known Google search trick: * can be used as a word substitute. Try, you don't code PHP you * it until it works ...confirms you are right. That said, I think most PHP programmers accepted this openly before anyone needed to say it. Paul (who has given a why PHP is great talk too in case it sounds like I'm starting a language flame war :))
