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I love PHP. I think of it as the English language of programming. Picking and choosing all of the best bits from every other language, and bastardizing them in

I love PHP. I think of it as the English language of programming. Picking and choosing all of the best bits from every other language, and bastardizing them into it's own everyday use.

brianpgordon 12y ago
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome?
- elros 12y ago
  Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law?
  - sigzero 12y ago
    It's very clearly not sarcasm.
jhall1468 12y ago
I think the part where you said "best bits" is debatable.
draders 12y ago
I too love PHP!
wyager 12y ago
If I cut off the limbs of a bunch of athletes and glue them together, it doesn't make a better athlete.
- tomschlick 12y ago
  Depends on the sport.
- Padding 12y ago
  Maybe that's because gluing together limbs is still an open research issue while gluing together ideas is merely a mental excercise?
- smt88 12y ago
  Do you like Go? Part of the process for creating Go was to take the best parts of other languages and glue them together, while also throwing out as many features as possible.
  - wyager 12y ago
    Funny you should ask :) I'm best known for my article criticizing Go's design. I think Go is a reactionary language; it says "To hell with the last 30 years of language research; we want the good old K&R days back!" while making a few token admissions to progress (like good green threading). In reality, this approach eliminated everything that made C elegant (C is universally compatible with basically all Von Neumann computers, and Go certainly isn't) without actually taking advantage of 99% of the progress we've made. I'd hardly say Go has many of the "best parts" of other languages.
- awalGarg 12y ago
  I hope you don't find analogies like that. It doesn't make sense to compare athletes to programming languages; that analogy makes no sense at all. Also +1 to what @Padding says.
  - wyager 12y ago
    It's obviously not a precise analogy :) However, it gets the point across; taking a bunch of bits from disparate well-functioning systems and smashing them together doesn't guarantee that you'll get another well-functioning system.

I love PHP. I think of it as the English language of programming. Picking and choosing all of the best bits from every other language, and bastardizing them into it's own everyday use.

brianpgordon 12y ago

Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome?

elros 12y ago
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law?
- sigzero 12y ago
  It's very clearly not sarcasm.

jhall1468 12y ago

I think the part where you said "best bits" is debatable.

draders 12y ago

I too love PHP!

wyager 12y ago

If I cut off the limbs of a bunch of athletes and glue them together, it doesn't make a better athlete.

tomschlick 12y ago
Depends on the sport.
Padding 12y ago
Maybe that's because gluing together limbs is still an open research issue while gluing together ideas is merely a mental excercise?
smt88 12y ago
Do you like Go? Part of the process for creating Go was to take the best parts of other languages and glue them together, while also throwing out as many features as possible.
- wyager 12y ago
  Funny you should ask :) I'm best known for my article criticizing Go's design. I think Go is a reactionary language; it says "To hell with the last 30 years of language research; we want the good old K&R days back!" while making a few token admissions to progress (like good green threading). In reality, this approach eliminated everything that made C elegant (C is universally compatible with basically all Von Neumann computers, and Go certainly isn't) without actually taking advantage of 99% of the progress we've made. I'd hardly say Go has many of the "best parts" of other languages.
awalGarg 12y ago
I hope you don't find analogies like that. It doesn't make sense to compare athletes to programming languages; that analogy makes no sense at all. Also +1 to what @Padding says.
- wyager 12y ago
  It's obviously not a precise analogy :) However, it gets the point across; taking a bunch of bits from disparate well-functioning systems and smashing them together doesn't guarantee that you'll get another well-functioning system.