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Sorry, I must rant.

Sorry, I must rant.

Posted Aug 24, 2004 22:14 UTC (Tue) by koide (guest, #22687)
In reply to: Sorry, I must rant. by doodaddy
Parent article: PHP as a General-Purpose Language (Linux Journal)

<quote>...but disguised well as a purposefully simple, easy-to-learn language.</quote>

It is not disguised at such, it IS simple and easy to learn. And that's where its beauty resides and what makes it not pointless.

On the rest, I agree it's a mess. But some good projects, such as Smarty, JPGraph or ADOdb, show real work can be done using the language. (as in almost any other language, of course).

Nonetheless, I think the PHP group really needs to rethink its process (or even create one), and set specific goals and directions.


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