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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 18, 2012 8:28 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) by koch
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

> I agree that using PHP is terribly bad, but what is the "obvious" alternative for someone who has a good idea?
There are tons of them, such as Ruby on Rails.


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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 18, 2012 17:58 UTC (Wed) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link]

Ruby has its set of security problems. Django+Python is a better option. Personally I favor newLISP for almost everything. It is a really sweet and consistent little language, comes with a built in web server. http://newlisp.org/

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 18, 2012 19:25 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> Ruby has its set of security problems.
I didn't say Ruby doesn't have problems, but it doesn't have nearly as many as PHP.

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