Comments on: Why Php sucks (and I still use it) http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/ A few thoughts Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LS http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-178484 LS Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:16:01 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/#comment-178484 Yes, PHP suck,.. I use it,.. but it sucks!! really sucks!.. if you don't use a framework (ej: Symfony, Zend, etc) sucks more,.. Sessions have a magic rare behaviour, OOP?? LOL... is simply based on a bunch of functions,... variables?? LOL, magic methods? there are just official workarounds, debugers / IDE.. you have to use 5 tools at least to reach 10% of the IDE of other languajes... I got a certification in php but is a pain in the ass doing big project with it... ASP.NET, Java, FLEX are much better... Yes, PHP suck,.. I use it,.. but it sucks!! really sucks!.. if you don’t use a framework (ej: Symfony, Zend, etc) sucks more,.. Sessions have a magic rare behaviour, OOP?? LOL… is simply based on a bunch of functions,… variables?? LOL, magic methods? there are just official workarounds, debugers / IDE.. you have to use 5 tools at least to reach 10% of the IDE of other languajes… I got a certification in php but is a pain in the ass doing big project with it…

ASP.NET, Java, FLEX are much better…

]]> By: Bas Westerbaan http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-151047 Bas Westerbaan Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:51:10 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/#comment-151047 Hi Annon, PHP certainly serves me. If it wouldn't be PHP but Python or Ruby which became the big language in webapplications they would have just served me better. There are, offcourse, workarounds, but they are ugly. You don't want to use memcached or similar -- you just want to have shared variables in the language itself without bothering about it, for instance. That there are so many extensions to PHP that make PHP faster (and why they aren't included in PHP itself) is a clear sign that PHP could be faster by itself, but isn't. I still wonder what the difference between enterprise and non-enterprise is. PHP can work. YouTube has been build with PHP. I'd just rather work with something else. (PHP is a very ugly and difficult language in some parts -- eg. referencing) Hi Annon,

PHP certainly serves me. If it wouldn’t be PHP but Python or Ruby which became the big language in webapplications they would have just served me better.

There are, offcourse, workarounds, but they are ugly. You don’t want to use memcached or similar — you just want to have shared variables in the language itself without bothering about it, for instance. That there are so many extensions to PHP that make PHP faster (and why they aren’t included in PHP itself) is a clear sign that PHP could be faster by itself, but isn’t.

I still wonder what the difference between enterprise and non-enterprise is.

PHP can work. YouTube has been build with PHP.

I’d just rather work with something else.

(PHP is a very ugly and difficult language in some parts — eg. referencing)

]]> By: annon http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-151046 annon Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:43:03 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/#comment-151046 despite the over negative view on php, it still can serves you, and there are many ways to make your code faster, and php now have caching in memory using apc, which by it self doubles the speed of php files processing... although i agree that php is not the optimal solution for enterprise business, but still can do it if u want to! plus it is an easy language... :) despite the over negative view on php, it still can serves you, and there are many ways to make your code faster, and php now have caching in memory using apc, which by it self doubles the speed of php files processing…

although i agree that php is not the optimal solution for enterprise business, but still can do it if u want to!
plus it is an easy language… :)

]]> By: Intrepid Blog » Blog Archive » Using template variables in extension tags with Mediawiki http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Intrepid Blog » Blog Archive » Using template variables in extension tags with Mediawiki Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:32:51 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/#comment-935 [...] You can download the patch for the 1.5-r5 beta here, if you are interested. And I thought I would never touch PHP again. - Bas Westerbaan [...] [...] You can download the patch for the 1.5-r5 beta here, if you are interested. And I thought I would never touch PHP again. - Bas Westerbaan [...]

]]> By: Jwaixs http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Jwaixs Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:23:58 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/02/21/why-php-sucks-and-i-still-use-it/#comment-911 Because we're too smart for this world... Because we’re too smart for this world…

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