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Not Again, Racism, CommunismNot Again, Racism, CommunismPosted Apr 17, 2012 20:10 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: Not Again, Racism, Communism by Cyberax Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)
Or to phrase it as a political joke I've heard here in the states, "Both parties are bad, so vote Republican." (I don't, BTW.) Looking through that (lengthy) article, I think Edsger Dijkstra's comment on BASIC may also apply to people who've only coded in PHP: It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Granted, this is coming from the same person who said gotos are bad without exception. I think reality is a bit more subtle than such stark pronouncements. PHP's suckiness, though, appears to be anything but subtle. Glad I stayed away from it.
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Mentally mutilated Posted Apr 18, 2012 15:59 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I am probably tainted by my humble beginnings with Amstrad BASIC, but I have programmed in Pascal, Perl, Python, C, Java, JavaScript, PL/SQL, even Bash; but I kind of like PHP. It lets you do what you want quickly and it is not so full of itself as Python.That is all. I just wanted to add a Leftist vote for PHP. Please don't flame me.
Mentally mutilated Posted Apr 18, 2012 18:11 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
You started with BASIC? You know, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Mentally mutilated Posted Apr 18, 2012 18:34 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Well, what can you do. At least it was not Visual Basic; and my first programs were really Spectrum Basic. Actually I have very fond memories of GFA basic. When I recoded the 3D graphic application I did for the Atari ST in 68k assembler, for speed gains, I was ultimately unable to debug it, probably due to the massive brain damage inflicted by the various Basic dialects.That was when I was young and agile, now that I am older I have learned not to do anything too clever in my code.
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