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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)Posted Apr 17, 2012 14:04 UTC (Tue) by maney (subscriber, #12630)In reply to: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) by kmike Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)
Our Editor is not the only one who fell for the PHP Hype back in the bad old days. The thing is, it did make simple things pretty easy, and is still arguably a good choice for the sort of simple database query & generate that it was first intended for. And besides, back then Python's support for web page generation was little more than "import cgi". But that changed, and we escaped PHP. Years later I found the perfect concise explanation of what went wrong: Q: What do you get when programmers design a language
while trying to get something else done?
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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) Posted Apr 19, 2012 10:23 UTC (Thu) by janpla (guest, #11093) [Link]
Well, it is popular, and as they say: 50 million flies can't be wrong.
PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) Posted Apr 19, 2012 16:42 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
Dyslexia: I'm all, "50 million flies?" which also makes sense in this context.
PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) Posted Apr 23, 2012 5:01 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
No, the saying really is flies.
Just because 5,000 flies like the s**t does not mean it isn't s**t.
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