sitepoint.com— Harry F (of phppatterns.com fame) writes a solid blog post discussing strenth of PHP in response to Tim Bray's critic of PHP.
Feb 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
He doesn't mention that there's no naming convention for functions, sometimes it's verb_noun, others it's noun_verb, sometimes it's even kitchen-appliance_pencil-brand. No mention either of the weak reflection support. Of course, since I'm complaining about PHP, that means it's not a language nobody uses. Stupid Bjarne and his witty quotes...
"there's no naming convention for functions"That's why I'm really glad there's php.net/functionUsually anything close will get you to the right one (or a list of possibilities).
gnuvinceFeb 22, 2006
He doesn't mention that there's no naming convention for functions, sometimes it's verb_noun, others it's noun_verb, sometimes it's even kitchen-appliance_pencil-brand. No mention either of the weak reflection support. Of course, since I'm complaining about PHP, that means it's not a language nobody uses. Stupid Bjarne and his witty quotes...
ddrircFeb 22, 2006
"there's no naming convention for functions"That's why I'm really glad there's php.net/functionUsually anything close will get you to the right one (or a list of possibilities).
enobrevFeb 22, 2006
"Nobody ever said that PHP does suck"Actually a LOT of people have been saying it sucks in the past couple days, with decent arguments (bottom of the post):<a class="user" href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/17/PHP">http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/17/PHP</a>Good to see a solid pro-php follow up that says more than "Oh yeah? well... so what!?"