News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on PHP needs a vision. Parent comment

Re:PHP needs a vision by laurent123456 on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @10:17PM (#5035161)
That's also a problem because anyone with a day experience in PHP can claim to be PHP developer, and often companies can't really tell the difference between an experienced and non-experienced programmer. If they can do PHP, they can build our website and we end up with horrible unmaintainable code. I think that's why PHP has such a bad reputation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PHP needs a vision by nnq on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:24AM (#5036692)
...naah, any kid can learn Brainfuck in a weekend ..."real" programmers don't even need a 100% Turing complete language to get the job done: choose Malbolge instead! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PHP needs a vision by drusenko on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @11:13PM (#5035358)
maybe we should all switch to brainfuck for web development then so we can weed out the stupids [/sarcasm]
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:PHP needs a vision by rybosome on Thursday January 10, 2013 @02:44AM (#5035973)
I get your point, but being easy to pick up AND easy to make dangerous mistakes is a bad combination. The goal isn't necessarily to "weed out the stupids", but rather to prevent bad practices from propagating. "Too easy", in my view, means having a rotary saw with no guard and a hair trigger.
[ Parent | on HN ]