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One of the quirks, yeah. The PHP logo is ugly too. But I can live with that. I've been using PHP since the late 90s, it's not nearly as bad some people think it is. The development of it is slower than say what MS or Oracle can do, but all things considered it's still a nice piece of software. A bit like the VB of the web world, where it's more a function of the programmer than the language making things with it that suck.
Jeremy Falcon
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The three really irritating things about php are the -> arrows and dollar signs, the completely random api methods, and using . for string concatenation. I really like wordpress which is built on php, the way double quote strings work, and the loose typing. Everything so far seems like a wash.
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I've defended these points so many times I'm tired of repeating myself. These aren't real reasons; they're religious-type reasons man. It only tells me you don't know much about PHP. And yes, I *could* iterate each reason and explain it. I just don't feel like it. Muwahahaha.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: These aren't real reasons; they're religious-type reasons man.
Please, don't tell me how to think. I'm going to dislike PHP for that stuff no matter what you say, you don't have to defend it. I still use it and build some pretty cool software with it.
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Andy Brummer wrote: Please, don't tell me how to think. I'm going to dislike PHP for that stuff no matter what you say, you don't have to defend it.
Spoken like a religious person.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Spoken like a religious person.
I see.
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I'm comparatively new to php. It does the job for me most admirably.
And (with its function library) it also look like C - and that, alone causes a warm fuzzy feeling with memories of when my hair was all dark.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Good for you man. Right out of the box, one of the best things you'll notice about PHP is the amount of open source crap out there you can use with it, especially on a *nix machine where you can shell out. Need to resample audio files? No problem. Need to convert PDF to text? No problem. And the list goes on. There are tons of libs out there to help you with this all for free. It does have a few flaws IMO, but the good outweighs the bad.
Jeremy Falcon
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I like the fact that a lot of anti Israel sites are written using Zend
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Well there ya go! 
Jeremy Falcon
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After years of using and defending PHP, you *finally* bumped up against something that you found a problem with? Or did you even bump into an issue with it, your post seems to say you saw someone else having an issue with it on YT.
If it works for you, what's the problem?
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Sounds like an opportunity to me. PHP is in fact open source. Like it's been pointed out in this thread, there are many community things out there that you can use to overcome your hurdles.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0[^]
Top comment from YouTube staff :
We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. "Gangnam Style" has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!
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At least it is signed, to allow for the "unviewers"?
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That's the first thing I thought too. Nice to know even YT has some legacy code they'd rather not talk about. Makes me feel better.
Jeremy Falcon
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If we all go and watch the YouTube video of the Arianne rocket launch fail caused by an integer overflow...we might cause a YouTube integer overflow.
This is how we will defeat the terminator robots in our dystopian future - unchecked integer assignments.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: "Gangnam Style" has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!
The brain of the users.
Read it in the Cybermen voice 
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Psy for president... 
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No reason not to just stop counting at maxint.
FTFM
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But if they stopped counting, how would the sheep know what they should be watching? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pfft, Psy is so last year. I mean stop at maxint.
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That is why counters should be started as text, then you can do the math internally using floating point and converted back...
Seriously, I worked on a system that did just that...
Created havoc when trying to balance values at month end.
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