[Kc] PHP guys?

[David Nicol]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Stephen Clouse <stephenclouse at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What does Stephen Clouse have against PHP?
>
>
> http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
>

That is an excellent rant. PHP appears to have been optimized for
bureaucratic embedding. The "PHP guy" sets something up that sort of works,
and then remains there extending it for years and years. So is there an
alternative to simply ignoring the many job postings looking for
PHP-competent hackers? Offer to rewrite the PHP stuff in something else? By
tomorrow? Not practical.



> So you're over autoconverting scalars? Or is that feature now available
>> enough other places.
>>
>
> You lost me somewhere.
>

I was replying to "Moose seems like the only thing Perl has going for it
any more." The weak typing was what
made it interesting to me when i first encountered it, so long ago; I guess
I was trying to imply a cheerful question, please share what aspects Perl
used to have, that aren't fun any more?
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