At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up?

Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by BerislavLopac on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @08:44AM (#648946)

PHP is not a language. It's a template engine gone berserk.

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by spoiledtechie on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @09:15AM (#649004)

Couldn't agree more... But it does still do a good job...

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by BerislavLopac on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @09:28AM (#649030)

Never said it didn't. ;)

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by ssharp on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @09:19AM (#649010)

Your comment isn't relevant.

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by randallsquared on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:02PM (#649518)

It's better as a language than as a templating system, sad to say.

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by jrockway on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @04:54PM (#649977)

This is the amusing irony of PHP. It's a programming language designed to make generating HTML and interfacing with the web easy, but it's actually very hard (compared to other languages) to do either of these things.

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by randallsquared on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @05:15PM (#650013)

I don't think anyone wanted generating HTML to be easy with PHP; the original point was that your little script was embedded in the HTML. The document was the primary thing, and the code was just for this or that specific purpose.

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Re:At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up? by jrockway on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @07:03PM (#650183)

Fair enough.

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