On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:25:08 GMT in comp.lang.python, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > >The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is >extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web >programs with PHP. > >However, it seems that almost no one actually does so. Virtually all of >the vast PHP code samples on the web are crap. Maybe the simplicity of the >language encourages inexperienced programmers who write spaghetti code >without a thought to the structure; I don't know the exact cause, but I >have seen it more often than not. This reminds me of a comment that John Levine (moderator of comp.compilers) wrote in a post back in 1997: "It is my impression that it's possible to write good programs in C++, but nobody does." However, in the case of C++, I wouldn't blame "... the simplicity of the language ..." Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list