How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent

Re:How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have ... by mrweasel on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:02AM (#39190207)

There's an old interview with Rasmus Lerdorf somewhere on the net, where he talks about just hacking something together and make it work. It doesn't have to be good or the best way of doing things, then some "computer science guy" can come along and fix it later.

In many ways that's a good way of creating security issues, but it's also an excellent way of actually getting a feature build. The smarter people is being given a sense of direction, by being shown the bad implementation and tasked with improving it.

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Re:How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have ... by azornathogron on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:09AM (#39190273)

Perhaps this is how the world ends up with "PHP: a fractal of bad design"?

Not that I want to be too snarky about it: I used PHP a bit back in the LAMP stack days, and as bad as the language was it was easy to get stuff up and running. So perhaps Mr Lerdorf is right. (I hear PHP might be somewhat better now, though I can't vouch for that myself)

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