Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Stuart Dallas
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 18:37, Robert Cummings > wrote: > > > > Damn... here I thought the hint was-- it begins with "tme". If only I had > > caught that abso-bloody-lutely embodied the principle, then I could have > > back-frickin-tracked

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 20:04, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > Haven't you been told before that offers of and requests for services of a > personal nature should be kept off the list!! I don't believe so, but then - if I had - I would've ignored the order just as now. -- Network Infrastructure M

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 18:37, Robert Cummings wrote: > > Damn... here I thought the hint was-- it begins with "tme". If only I had > caught that abso-bloody-lutely embodied the principle, then I could have > back-frickin-tracked from the principle, to the meaning, to the word itself. > That would

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-07-15 04:21 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 16:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I'm still not getting it, and the only dictionary I have about is some tiny pocket one I've had since I was 9! The word was 'tmesis', which is a linguistic phenomenon in which words or phra

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 16:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > I'm still not getting it, and the only dictionary I have about is some > tiny pocket one I've had since I was 9! The word was 'tmesis', which is a linguistic phenomenon in which words or phrases have other words or phrases thrown in

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:42 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 15 July 2011 01:42, Micky Hulse wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM, George Langley > > wrote: > >> He gave you a beautiful hint: > > > > :: slaps self on forehead :: > > > > I should've known!!! :D > > > > Thanks! > > Micky

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-15 Thread Richard Quadling
On 15 July 2011 01:42, Micky Hulse wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM, George Langley > wrote: >> He gave you a beautiful hint: > > :: slaps self on forehead :: > > I should've known!!! :D > > Thanks! > Micky He he! Well done. It's a great word. My wife and I really didn't think anythin

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM, George Langley wrote: > He gave you a beautiful hint: :: slaps self on forehead :: I should've known!!! :D Thanks! Micky -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread George Langley
- Original Message - From: Micky Hulse > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Richard Quadling > wrote: > > My daughter (6 or 7 at the time) came up with T, M and E. I was > > abso-bloody-lutely amazed she managed to find a word starting > with T, > > M and E. > > What was the word? -

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: > My daughter (6 or 7 at the time) came up with T, M and E. I was > abso-bloody-lutely amazed she managed to find a word starting with T, > M and E. What was the word? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visi

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread George Langley
On 2011-07-14, at 4:36 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > That's a massive pet hate of mine, along with using here/hear in the wrong > way and those who have no idea of the difference between "there", "their" & > "they're". Makes me want to beat them upside the head with a dictionary :) ---

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Quadling
> On 14 July 2011 11:36, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > Makes me want to beat them upside the head with a dictionary :) In our house, our Big Red Book _IS_ a massive Oxford Dictionary. We play a game with the kids. Think of 3 random letters and find a word starting with it. My daughter (6 or 7 at the

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 July 2011 11:36, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > That's a massive pet hate of mine, along with using here/hear in the wrong > way and those who have no idea of the difference between "there", "their" & > "they're". Makes me want to beat them upside the head with a dictionary :) > Thanks, > Ash I

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Ashley Sheridan
>Particularly as it's written by a fathead who thinks that "lose" is >spelt "loose". > >-- >Cheers -- Tim > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php That's a massive pet hate of mine, along with using here/hear in the wrong way

Re: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-14 Thread Tim Streater
On 14 Jul 2011 at 01:59, Lester Caine wrote: > Daevid Vincent wrote: >> (at the risk of starting another $h!t storm like the last time) >> >> http://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#PHP_sucks_because: > > Perhaps when they get around to checking the facts ... most of the content > will > be del

RE: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-13 Thread Alex Nikitin
I'm actually interested in finding out if there are any languages that don't suck in any way... I know and have programmed in about 29, i have yet to find a language that makes 100% sense and i have no complaints about. However i still choose PHP over many, many other languages and i implement php

RE: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-13 Thread Florian Müller
*ck on somebody telling that all languages suxx. Please ask somebody for a hobby. > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:59:27 +0100 > From: les...@lsces.co.uk > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because... > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > (at the

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
Daevid Vincent wrote: (at the risk of starting another $h!t storm like the last time) http://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#PHP_sucks_because: Perhaps when they get around to checking the facts ... most of the content will be deleted? A number of the -ve's I'd personally flag as +ve's and

Re: [PHP] Your language sucks because...

2011-07-13 Thread Micky Hulse
Under the CSS section: No way to modularize or programmatically generate lengths. Can't say: { width:50% - 2px; } That's so true!! I wish I could do the above... Oh, and why is the PHP section so damned long?!? Good read, thanks. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To uns