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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)Posted Apr 17, 2012 6:07 UTC (Tue) by frazier (guest, #3060)Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)
The power in PHP is that many web problems are pretty much already solved in software written in PHP. With WordPress or Drupal you have a largely complete solution for many web projects, and the source and/or structure is there to add on the pieces if needed.
Particularly with small web projects, PHP is great because cheap hosting is plentiful + WordPress is really handy. None of this excuses design inconsistencies in the language, but it does explain why PHP use is so common.
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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) Posted Apr 17, 2012 6:42 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
Summary:
Barely good enough + first to market => WIN!
Sprinkle with appropriate vendor lock-in and you get: WIN FOREVER
Early mover is a myth Posted Apr 17, 2012 8:04 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
If that were true, we'd all be coding Perl.
PHP won because mod_php enabled cheap shared hosting. It created a whole new market and exploded in popularity.
It's a market that other languages ten years still doesn't compete in. Only Microsoft really tried and they couldn't even make deployment work consistently across their products.
PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) Posted Apr 17, 2012 8:16 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
> Barely good enough + first to market => WIN!
well, Yes
release early, release often is the core of opensource programming.
It requires that the code be 'good enough' (even if barely) and that you update it at a sufficient velocity that competitors can't catch up.
note that 'good enough' will have different meanings for different people, so what is 'good enough' for one use-case may not be for others.
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