-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/07 10:40, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> Well no. PHP is not a professional language because it has no really >>> design - and that has nothing to do with the fact it beeing a scripting >>> language. Its a bad scripting language. (Say namespaces for example, >>> confusing function interfaces, unicode flaws, missing usable frameworks, >>> silly type handling, quoting hell) >> - What do you mean by confusing function interfaces and unicode flaws? > > > This whole discussion is about a language lawyer and a professional. The > reality is, professional programmers do use PHP. I would say probably > more than any other language out there. This is what I get for writing an email at 4AM after dying at the top of Sokoban. Sooo close to the treasure room! Anyway... Personal Home Page Tools was designed to personal home pages in the low-threat environment of 1995, the same year as MySQL. Whereas some languages and RDBMSs have a firm design philosophy, both PHP & MySQL were built as personal/small-systems tools, and then wildly expanded. Current design, security & feature issues bear out that there's a lot of ad hocery in both systems. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3dWbS9HxQb37XmcRAmZOAKDcricsMJl3SUrfJ/s6yzAzIOOCeQCgwcLX bmxwfTonJ5xZOBSkknR03Po= =6mAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
