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On 12/27/06, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On 26/12/06, Adam Atlas <adam@xxxxx.xx> wrote: > > I think one major reason PHP "won" is that it's so stupidly easy that > > it allows bad programmers to write web apps that, although horribly > > ugly, at least work (in some sense of the word). > > Rule of thumb: if it's stupidly easy, it's easily stupid. PHP is both easy in the good and bad way. The good way: being able to add a tag to an existing HTML page, rename it, and it works. Also, drag & drop deployment. The bad way: REGISTER_GLOBALS (now deprecated, thank fuck) and the many other foot-seeking missiles. PHP is not an argument against making things easy or usable. It's an argument against guiding the beginner down a route that will drop them (and everyone else on the same machine) in a deep hole without them realising. Corrolary hate: FOSS authors who equate fast, easy software with insecure, inflexible messes. -- YozThere's stuff above here
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