Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP
От | John Smith |
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Тема | Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP |
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Msg-id | f029597e0706161238w360ecb82ucf89dd14f7c96706@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
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Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP
("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP ("Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe@oss4u.com>) Re: PHP sucks!! - was: persistent db connections in PHP (Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>) |
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guys, love both tools but php @ 2.5 *billion* google results is far more popular than postgresql @ 25 million google results. *if* somebody's gotto adapt it's not php. php does what it does best in a way that stuffy academics don't get. On 6/16/07, PFC <lists@peufeu.com> wrote: > "PHP: very loosely typed, does whatever it wants" yeah php got a life of its own! sure be a lazy programmer and blame sql injection etc crap on php or try http://www.xdebug.org/ and others. bottomline- people who know other tools better gripe because their's isn't as popular. jzs On 6/16/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > > On 16/06/2007 16:46, PFC wrote: > > > >> Also note that PHP, being PHP, sucks, and thusly, will not > >> reconnect persistent connections when they fail. You have to kick it a > >> bit. > > > > I've seen similar negative comments before on this list about PHP, and > > I'm curious to know what informs them. > > This is likely to be a long thread, but I will break it down very simply. > > PHP works. > > PHP does not work the way "real" programmers want it to. > > Everything else comes down to semantic arguments of what is correct and > what isn't. Most of the arguments will be correct in that: > > PHP as a programming language is horrible > PHP does things that any sane programmer would run from > > But go back to my first point: > > PHP works. > > PHP is easy, I say this as a guy that will code Python over PHP any day > of the week but, PHP works. > > Sincerely, > > Joshua D. Drake > > > > I use PHP quite a bit, and though I wouldn't claim to be any sort of an > > expert, I like it a lot: IMHO it's powerful, fast and easy to use. Mind > > you, I came to PHP from an ASP/VBscript background, so anything would > > have been an improvement. > > > > Having said that, the main gripes I would have with PHP are (i) > > variables aren't strongly typed, which can bite you unless you're > > careful, and (ii) you don't have to declare variables before using them, > > which can also cause trouble - in VBScript you have "option expicit" > > which forces you to declare your variables; I'd like to see something > > similar in PHP. > > > > Apologies if this is off-topic for this list, but I'm curious as to why > > others reckon that PHP sucks..... > > > > Ray. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland > > rod@iol.ie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
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