On 21/06/13 11:19, Tim Streater wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 21/06/13 10:16, Tim Streater wrote:
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Hmmm, what a content-free site. He whinges about a lot of stuff I
never use, so it's just a big yawn.

+1.
He went looking for Pascal and found PEEK POKE and BASIC
Big deal.

It reminds me of that plaintive Edgar Broughton song 'what is a woman
for?'

A question I shall probably take unanswered to my grave.

What in fact is PHP for? Does it actually make the job of
constructing YOUR website easier, or harder?

Well oddly enough I only make minimal use of it on one website.

In which case there is probably a better language for you. I'd guess at
Python.


"While offering choice in coding methodology, the Python philosophy
rejects exuberant syntax, such as in Perl, in favor of a sparser,
less-cluttered grammar. As Alex Martelli put it: "To describe something
as clever is not considered a compliment in the Python culture."[28]
Python's philosophy rejects the Perl "there is more than one way to do
it" approach to language design in favor of "there should be one€”and
preferably only one€”obvious way to do it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_...ng_language%29

I think if I wanted to actually write complex scripts and do maths, Id
look at python.

I did briefly look at it when looking for a language to build websites
with, but settled on PHP because it was very widely understood and
recognised, and I have been dealing with weird programming tools all my
life :-)

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