Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/09/07 13:03

Rik wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Rik wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>> php is superior for small web applications,
>>>>> ...in your opinion.
>>>> And mine and a few hundred others here on this newsgroup. Versus
>>>> one opinion to the contrary - yours.
>>> Well, we're quite biased in this group offcourse :P
>>> PHP is quite a lot under fire for being to 'loose'. I can understand
>>> that, it's horribly easy to make something in PHP that only seems to
>>> work correctly but is actually flawed as hell.
>> The same has been said about C for around 30 years. But that hasn't
>> stopped a lot of code from being written in it.
>
> Nor should it. I do however think things might have benefited from
> strict types. But that's w shole other discussion
>

Agreed - loose typing is both an advantage and a disadvantage. But you
can also overdo strict typing. Pascal comes to mind.

However, in a way I really do wish PHP had "real" data types. As it is,
it's too easy to do thinks like add a string to an integer, as so many
posts in this newsgroup indicate.

>> Sure it's easy to make mistakes. But I don't think that's a language
>> problem as much as a programmer problem.
>
> Indeed, bad code can be written in any language.
>

True. You can write bad code in any language. But some languages make
it very difficult to write good code :-). Fortunately PHP is not among
them.

>>> --Rik Wasmus
>
> Damn, sig-seperator not working for you? The fix for Thunderbird seems
> to be in the nightly build, I trust this will be fixed in an official
> release soon :-)
>

Nope - because two hyphens starting a line are not a separator.

The correct sig separator is hyphen-hyphen-space-newline alone on a
single line. That works fine here.


> --Rik Wasmus
> Posted on Usenet, not any forum you might see this in.
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