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Re:Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible by chromatic on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:23PM (#1515062)
A well designed language or library can decrease the likelihood of specific bugs, and especially security problems. Imagine the existence of a library which made it easier to use SQL placeholders than to concatenate user input into a string. Imagine PHP without register globals.
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Re:Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible by hackermom on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @02:51PM (#1515558)
PHP already does that via PDO. PHP's "Register globals" was deprecated exactly one year ago, in 5.3.0.
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Re:Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible by moell on Thursday July 15, 2010 @08:39AM (#1517596)
That was exactly chromatic's point---language design and features do make a difference.
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Re:Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible by hackermom on Thursday July 15, 2010 @10:02AM (#1517803)
It's always easier to blame the tool for your failed craft than it is to be a good programmer, isn't it :)

Putting PHP in the "inadequate corner" or trying to convince oneself that it is lacking in features is just an easy excuse.

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Re:Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible by chromatic on Friday July 16, 2010 @01:58PM (#1521900)
It's always easier to blame the tool for your failed craft than it is to be a good programmer, isn't it :)

Do you object to the attractive nuisance doctrine?

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