• Rikudou_Sage
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    122 years ago

    Modern PHP is great and people judging it by PHP 5 (version that’s almost 20 years old) are idiots.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I have this opinion of PHP. I don’t use it, and I look for alternatives when I find something that does what I want that’s written in it.

      Your callout is fair though. I’m not going to switch or anything. I’m happy with my favored scripting language. But I’ll try to not be dismissive of projects that are written in PHP.

        • xigoi
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          12 years ago

          Your examples are ironically a great showcase of what I hate about PHP. Java-style object-obsessed programming with long names, piles of design patterns and dozens of imports, along with C-style syntax and dollars before variable names.

          • Rikudou_Sage
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            12 years ago

            Java-style object-obsessed programming with long names

            I mean, unlike Java, you can do procedural or functional (the support is getting better but I wouldn’t call php the best language for functional). I personally love object-oriented design because it’s the best (IMO) for large projects.

            C-style syntax

            That’s a feature in my book, I almost exclusively write code in C-style languages and it’s really easy switching between them. The only exception for me being Go.

            dollars before variable names

            That’s just such a minor detail to hate language over. I like them (probably because PHP was my first language so I got used to them), but I don’t quite care when I’m switching between languages.