Re: perl

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: perl
Date: 21:40 on 27 Dec 2006
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.

-- Yoz
There's stuff above here

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