Hello Lester, Actually, many of the points are not important for me so far, however this one really drives me mad: http://phpsadness.com/?page=sad/35 (can't explode() by an empty string) Besides that, he says nothing about unicode issues. I love PHP (I really do, it's a neat language, as for me!), but it *should* be unicode by default. If you ever read my code when I try to make and strtr() with a unicode string, you'll understand me because I do an iconv(), then strtr() and then an iconv() back to unicode. That is not a good coding practice, is it? -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion ------------ Original message ------------ From: Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date created: , 10:49:28 AM Subject: phpsadness Daevid Vincent wrote: > A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points > and I certainly share in his frustration. > > http://www.phpsadness.com I'd take him a bit more seriously if he used a real name ;) But many of the points I looked at simply reflect that he has yet to take advantage of any of the free development tools that highlight problems even before you try and run the code? Of cause what would be really useful would be a comment section on each page so that they CAN be corrected, or linked to the discussion on the pro's and con's on making changes to them. But on the whole PHP is no more 'inconsistent' than any other language? Many of the things I learnt to do in Algol all those years ago are now done differently, and no doubt things will change again - next version of PHPX :) I've just wasted the last two days trying to get a C++ program that I've been using for 15 years even to compile in the latest iteration of the old Borland tool set .... and I had to pay lots of pennies for the privilege to even try! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
