Comments By: K. Therriault
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Hi, first off, I would like to compliment you on the very useful article you have shared with us. Secondly, I must say I grow weary of reading the drivel posted by some people who for some apparent reason feel the need to babble on about what a load of garbage this language is and what a load of crap that language is. I am a fairly advanced coder and I have experience developing in multiple languages like many other developers throughout the world. I personally would like to think that a truly professional developer has the sense and intelligence to use the proper tool for the job at hand. I dont see any benefit from slamming one or the other. I also would like to point out that not all PHP code is spaghetti code people, there is very well written and highly professional applications developed using the PHP language. And what the heck, it is the most widely used scripting language in the world is it not? Just look at the number of high level applications that are using PHP as their base language. Facebook, Digg, Yahoo and many many more. I wonder why that is? Do you think the developers at Yahoo or Facebook write crappy spaghetti code? I think not. You may say that should be using a more elegant or powerful language or something? Apparently the developers of these multi billion dollar applications used by millions of users each day feel a wee bit differently than some. So I guess all I have left to say about this is if you dont like how PHP code is written, then dont write it that way, write it properly, and professionally. If you dont like PHP, dont use it then. But if you dont like it and have to use, dont whine about it. Do you job, collect your pay check and act like a professional not an whining elitist baby! And If you dont like th way PHP does something or how a particular function behaves, well then.... why dont you step up and fix it then instead of complaining about it. It is open source is it not? PHP is not going away my friends, it is here to stay and it is only getting bigger and better. Regardsposted on Mar 23, 2008 at 12:44am | context