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Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
> $foo will grow stronger than ever.
-- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Comment · 14 years ago
> there are many self-described experts in PHP
I think this is the real problem of PHP.
It attracts people too stupid to realize that their own level of knowledge should make them avoid teaching others.
As soon as someone points out an issue they almost immediately switch to "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!".
Comment · 14 years ago
Everybody should have basic programming skills, just like math, writing, etc.
That doesn't mean we have to be happy with the shitty way things are currently done.
Comment · 14 years ago
Smoking isn't just a profession, it's an everyday skill
that everyone should learn, regardless of how badly.
A cigarette is a great enabler for this - and I endorse
this direction completely.
-- Your friendly tobacco association.Comment · 14 years ago
The question is why they don't move on to a working language, knowing that the PHP team will _never_ fix all these bugs. It is like those people who keep penny-stocks they bought years ago for a lot of money, trying not to realize that their investment is worthless now.
Comment · 14 years ago
> The core of the PHP community is filled with a lot of really talented and smart developers doing some really amazing things.
Like those, who failed for years to actually consult the results of the test suite before shipping a new release? http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4
Like those who change stuff incompatibly to the worse, while introducing security holes? http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-a.php https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475
Like those were security fixes create even larger holes? http://thexploit.com/secdev/critical-php-remote-vulnerabilit...
Like those who can't program a sane line of code in the language PHP is written in? "OMG, this calculation overflows, let's replace the int by an float!"
You can't make that shit up. I have nothing against stupid people, but against stupid people who fight against every kind of process who could prevent their own stupidity like
- "learning from mistakes",
- "learning the language they actually program in",
- "handling bug reports in a way it doesn't alienate reporters" or
- "having a decent test coverage".
Instead of thinking about yet-another-documentation site, what about fixing the devastating quality of their API documentation (especially the comments)?
PHP wouldn't be this worse if this was what would actually be happening, because these people would assess the situation and take away the control from the PHP team, due to its inability to do its job.
More realistically, people see PHP and run away screaming. The only people using PHP are those unable to see how unbelievably bad the language and its libraries are designed and implemented.
> I find that most are actually very willing to accept and admit to their fault.
- So why is the standard library in such a bad shape?
- Why is the documentation in such a bad shape?
- Why aren't there any established processes in place to prevent repeating mistakes (see above)?
- Why are large parts of the implementation barely maintainable?
- Why is the ecosystem still in such a bad shape?
- Why is the core team spreading bad practices instead of good practices?
- Why is the language so unbelievable slow?
- Why is the runtime and the garbage collector of such bad quality that it is completely impossible to run sufficiently complex applications over a larger period of time?