On 2017-10-11, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > But since it's the lowest-end sites that have traditionally driven > that demand for PHP, there's a general tendency for low-grade > programmers to gravitate to it, so there's a lot of really REALLY bad > code out there.
And there are a lot of people providing really REALLY bad answers on various support fora. I learned very quickly to pay no attention to people providing answers to PHP questions on any web-based forum. I've probably been spoiled by the level of discorse in this list/group, but I was absolutely dumbfounded by the wrong answers people drooled onto the interwebs. PHP is the poster child for cargo-cult programming where people cut/paste chunks of garbage without really understanding what they're doing. Even the official PHP documentation is pretty bad. It's not usually outright wrong, but it's very incomplete, and leaves a _lot_ of things undefined. Of course the PHP lanugage itself is such a mess, it's often not very easy to understand what's going on. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
