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by vorpalhex
2954 days ago
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> i don't understand all this animosity toward PHP Most PHP code is terrible. That's not really PHPs fault - it's capable of producing very nice programs with beautiful behavior. As a language, it suffers a bit from being older and it was internally very inconsistent for a long time. For a long while, it's package management and practices were way behind the curve. Many people who program in PHP learned it as a first language, hacked together programs in it, and probably used hack together libraries and tooling. PHP can be used with grace, but most people don't have that experience with it. |
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This describes me very well, and i don't think i'm alone. When i look back at my(very early, first language) PHP code it looks horrible. A lot of it is just copy pasted code from random websites telling me that that it does what i wanted it to. Which is a pretty good description of me at a young age trying/learning to program by internet. I don't use PHP today, and i really don't want to, but i suspect that is in some part due to me struggling with stuff i never understood when i was doing it and developing a distaste for it looking back at my bad code from that time without realizing it could be done differently/in a way fairly close to what i do in my current work-language. I just wanted to make my WoW dkp page work and searched the internet when wondering how to and ended up writing really bad code. It still worked pretty good and i had fun doing it but i never considered writing PHP again once i moved on.