Board:   [DeveloperNet] PHP
Subject: is PHP a neccessary evil?
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:09

  Re: is PHP a neccessary evil?
  By: Khelair to LaRRy LaGoMoRpH on Mon Oct 13 2014 08:41:51

 Kh> talking about.  It's a 'dirty' language.  Reminds me more than a bit of
 Kh> Perl, except at least Perl knew what the hell STDOUT was for.  When you

I think STDOUT makes more sense on a command line context, as that's what
STDOUT was designed for.  I don't think STDOUT makes that much sense in a web
context.  If you were to try to write to STDOUT with PHP, I wonder if the
output would show up on the server'sconsole (if it had a console window open
for the server).

 Kh> couple that with the horribly duct-taped together OO syntax (atleast
 Kh> last time I checked, which was nearing 10 years ago), and some of the
 Kh> other fugly options, yeah...  It gets kind of nasty.

I started playing with PHP OO syntax about 5 or 6 years ago (with PHP 5, I
think).  I didn't think it was too bad.It has the notion of access levels
(private & public), constructors, and class methods, which is more than what
JavaScript has.

Nightfox

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