Re: Someone loves PHP...

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:31:08 +0100, G.B. wrote:

> On 27.11.15 12:01, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> On 11/26/2015 3:38 PM, mockturtle wrote:
>>> I guess that someone here will appreciate this...
>>>
>>> Someone loves PHP...
>>>
>>> http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
>>>
>>> ...but not the author of the blog (as you can guess by the URL)
>>>
>>> Riccardo
>>>
>>
>> According to the blog requirments of a computer language:
>>
>> 1) A language must be predictable.
>> 2) A language must be consistent.
>> 3) A language must be concise.
>> 4) A language must be reliable.
>> 5) A language must be debuggable.
> 
> The length at which statements like these border on
> the ridiculous becomes apparent once you test their
> negations (contradictions and contraries):
> 
> 1) A language must be unpredictable.
> 2) A language must be inconsistent.
> 3) A language must be verbose.
> 4) A language must be unreliable.
> 5) A language must be non-debuggable.
>
> 1) A language need not be predictable.
> 2) A language need not be consistent.
> 3) A language need not be concise.
> 4) A language need not be reliable.
> 5) A language need not be debuggable.

Cannot resist, but quote Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL

"No, the Real Programmer wants a 'you asked for it, you got it' text editor
- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous."

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de