Raja Subramanian wrote:
My personal gripe with PHP is that support for namespaces was added very late.
And let me add mine. I'm not very familiar with PHP and how it's coded
elsewhere, but I once had to integrate a rather popular open source PHP
blogging/forums engine into an existing RoR setup. OMG. The code made me
weep. Perhaps it's too much to expect MVC wherever there is database
access code?
I don't know if the lack of encouragement of a particular pattern does
it or what, but the code was a tangle of mess. Perfect spaghetti code.
DB access code strewn all over display code. Lack of proper naming
conventions. Similar code written copy-pasted all over the place with
little changes without any thought to modularity. Obviously, that put me
off PHP for quite a while. I hear things are changing with Symfony and
CakePHP.
But then, if people are really going to write new db-driven webapps,
there are much better alternatives like Django/RoR now.
V.
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