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And yet

And yet

Posted Apr 17, 2012 16:21 UTC (Tue) by jwarnica (subscriber, #27492)
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Despite all of those things, PHP is used by both professional developers and people who shouldn't so much as turn on a computer, to do productive and useful things.

Sour grapes.


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And yet

Posted Apr 17, 2012 16:50 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Sour grapes means that you can't have something, so you decide that it must be bad as a way of salving your frustration/denial.

Ie.
Can I have some grapes?
No.
Well, they were sour anyway, I bet.

I'm not sure how that's relevant here.

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