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PHP does one thing very very well... (Score:1)
I was vexed for a long time about PHP, how the hell could anything so patently dangerous and backwards (code inside template? huh?) be so popular.
What PHP did right, when everyone else did it wrong, was to make the "first hour" of your PHP experience utterly effortless.
When I first tried to do a website, PHP didn't really exist, and so I ended up learning CGI. And it took me almost an entire day to get it to work, with a weird little webserver running on Windows, and a little ActivePerl install, and a lot o
Re:PHP does one thing very very well… (Score:1)
It’s amazing only if you are also amazed that the most successful programming environment in the world is Excel.
Re:PHP does one thing very very well… (Score:1)
Yes, I still find that amazing as well.
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I don’t. There are a lot more people out there who don’t think of themselves as programmers but who have needs that can be served by a little bit of a programming. (And yes, a little bit of programming is very much like a little bit of knowledge…) Lowering the barrier for these people is a genuinely good thing, even though the means by which this is achieved may be less than suboptimal from the perspective of “real programmers”, and thence we enter classic worse is better terri