Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-30, Mike Barnes wrote:

While mulling over the topic last night I came to the conclusion that
PHP places a lot more responsibility on the programmer than most
language environments,

Another reason it sucks, then. )

If you want to write in such an environment, how about doing it in assembler?

I want to write in such an environment because I'm productive, and I can
bring my ideas to fruition with the minimum of distraction. Assembler
has just the opposite qualities.

When the beginner gets a
bit more experience he's more likely to be more tolerant of an
environment in which a program refuses to do *anything* unless you've
dotted all the "i"s and crossed all the "t"s.

And you think this is a *good* thing?

Unfortunately that's the environment that many programmers find
themselves in.

(All said with good humour, BTW. I'm not getting at anyone. My professional
programming days are about over. I'm semi-retired and although I still work
in IT, I haven't written anything other than quick & filthy hacks (in Perl,
to help the Windows geeks, who seem to lack basic skills) for years.)

I retired nearly twenty years ago but I still keep my hand in with home
projects. I also do some work for charities in MS Access, and it's hard
to get viler than that.

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England