After years of defending PHP...
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The below YouTube post got me thinking, after years of defending PHP on CP, I will admit there is one thing that I think is utterly stupid about it - it doesn't support unsigned integers. And you can't specify which size of an integer you want. It's a 32-bit int on 32-bit systems and a 64-bit int on 64-bit systems. Period. End of story. You want something else, that's your problem. Deal with it. Almost makes me wonder if that's why YT had the signed counter in the first place, for compatibility with web technologies such as that. And PHP is still a great tool, but like most environments there are some WTF things about it. This is one of them.
Jeremy Falcon
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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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
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.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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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.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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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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
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'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
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.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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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.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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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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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The below YouTube post got me thinking, after years of defending PHP on CP, I will admit there is one thing that I think is utterly stupid about it - it doesn't support unsigned integers. And you can't specify which size of an integer you want. It's a 32-bit int on 32-bit systems and a 64-bit int on 64-bit systems. Period. End of story. You want something else, that's your problem. Deal with it. Almost makes me wonder if that's why YT had the signed counter in the first place, for compatibility with web technologies such as that. And PHP is still a great tool, but like most environments there are some WTF things about it. This is one of them.
Jeremy Falcon
I like the fact that a lot of anti Israel sites are written using Zend
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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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The below YouTube post got me thinking, after years of defending PHP on CP, I will admit there is one thing that I think is utterly stupid about it - it doesn't support unsigned integers. And you can't specify which size of an integer you want. It's a 32-bit int on 32-bit systems and a 64-bit int on 64-bit systems. Period. End of story. You want something else, that's your problem. Deal with it. Almost makes me wonder if that's why YT had the signed counter in the first place, for compatibility with web technologies such as that. And PHP is still a great tool, but like most environments there are some WTF things about it. This is one of them.
Jeremy Falcon
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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I like the fact that a lot of anti Israel sites are written using Zend
Well there ya go! :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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The below YouTube post got me thinking, after years of defending PHP on CP, I will admit there is one thing that I think is utterly stupid about it - it doesn't support unsigned integers. And you can't specify which size of an integer you want. It's a 32-bit int on 32-bit systems and a 64-bit int on 64-bit systems. Period. End of story. You want something else, that's your problem. Deal with it. Almost makes me wonder if that's why YT had the signed counter in the first place, for compatibility with web technologies such as that. And PHP is still a great tool, but like most environments there are some WTF things about it. This is one of them.
Jeremy Falcon