[kw-pm] another intro.

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 09:57, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> Er.  If we exclude everybody who works with PHP, I'm afraid I'm out, too.

http://www.mixdown.ca/kb/ -- back in my PHP days...  Long since forgotten 
(thankfully) -- It *is* a nice language, but man I find it *worse* than Perl 
for code entropy.

> The funny thing is, there are a good number of well-written PHP apps for
> the web, which don't have free and open-source equivalents in perl.

Yes, but IMO they *all* suffer from the same basic problem: VERY messy.

SquirrelMail.  PHPbb.  PHPGroupware.  Flyspray.  I can hack the code but lord 
does it seem to get messy in a hurry.  PHP can separate content from 
presentation but it seems to encourage mixing it... Much like the tobacco 
companies "encourage" you to stop smoking with the digusting pictures and 
warnings but they're still selling it...

-A.