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Why PHP doesn't suck.

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.

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  • gnuvince, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He 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...
  • ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"there's no naming convention for functions"

    That's why I'm really glad there's php.net/function
    Usually anything close will get you to the right one (or a list of possibilities).
  • enobrev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"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):

    http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/17/PHP

    Good to see a solid pro-php follow up that says more than "Oh yeah? well... so what!?"
  • hutch113, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nobody ever said that PHP does suck, web developers everywhere love PHP. We don't need something to tell people why to love something that is already loved.

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