Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in?

Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by Zarathu on Sunday April 12, 2009 @10:21AM (#558453)

Coming to work from 8:30 to 5:30, sitting in a cubicle with a forced dress code, while writing in... sob PHP.

Rails freelance is awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by quizbiz on Sunday April 12, 2009 @02:59PM (#558752)

Does php really deserve a sob?

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by jcapote on Sunday April 12, 2009 @03:23PM (#558777)

Have you ever been forced to program in PHP?

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by etherael on Monday April 13, 2009 @02:39AM (#559512)

Yes, and then someone forced me to code in ColdFusion and run EXCEL imports into a really bad CF ORM with SQL server on the backend.

I now freelance django / RoR and PHP and I do not complain about any of them, ever. ColdFusion is the language one should be forced to work with whenever they complain about any other language, it will fix their aversion to the language in question very, very quickly.

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Re:Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in? by bkudria on Monday April 13, 2009 @04:08AM (#559559)

Yes. Sometimes.

PHP is a great language for the basic stuff, but you try to do serious things with it and you have to wrestle with it. And it's all so ... badly designed. You sob because it can all be done so much better and... cleaner.

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