Posted by tony on 12/21/05 11:34

>> ... Providing an elegantly-coded solution, or a technically pure solution, is secondary.

> Where have you been for the last 20 years? In the 80s, we programmed so
the computer could understand it. Now we program so your computer *and
your colleague* can understand it. Code has grown larger and larger and

is rarely written anymore by one lonely hacker who stays with the
company for 30 years. Legibility is everything.

You are missing the point. Writing code that satisfies the end users
takes a higher priority than writing code that satisfies the
programmers. Clean code that does not satisfy user requirements is
useless. Code that *does* satisfy user requirements, whether clean or
dirty, is a step in the right direction. Having code which is both
useful and clean would be perfect, but in this cruel world nothing is
ever perfect.

> So, PHP makers, if you are reading this:
Please, please, please, *PLEASE* drop the ternary operator from future
PHP versions! Just read the legacy code I'm confronted with and you
understand why.

Now there I would agree 100%. Every time I see the ternary operator I
want to puke.

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