totally off topic,
Tim Tassonis schrieb:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> My definition is, "toy used/trumpeted by pseudo-professionals as a
>> professional tool, when it just doesn't measure up".
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> Boah, here surely speaks a true professional playing in the league of
> Donald Knuth or even Alan Kay, as opposed to all the pseudos like me out
> there.
>
> Is it Assembler or Smalltalk you write your web pages with?
No, python, java ;)
> PHP absolutely is a professional tool as a scripting language, of course
> with all the downsides of any scripting language. I'll choose php over
Well no. PHP is not a professional language because it has no really
design - and that has nothing to do with the fact it beeing a scripting
language. Its a bad scripting language. (Say namespaces for example,
confusing function interfaces, unicode flaws, missing usable frameworks,
silly type handling, quoting hell)
> Perl any day, as it is syntactically much cleaner and performs
> sufficiently well for usual scripting needs.
ah... yes. Dont like perl either but its at least carrying some
actual language design.
> Of course, I wouldn't write an operating system with it.
Would you write a language with it? :-)
Btw, "professional programmers" can indeed use funny languages
- they are professional by they earning their living with it.
T.
