On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent years >>> so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs and do >>> something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: >>> >>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write code. >>> The bad thing about php is that they do. >> >> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for a >> minute that you used some php parser ... :p > > It's not that old for an "old saying". > I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using Google. > > And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan McKinnon....
Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to lots of people. About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
