Freshly Created: comp.lang.php

Agelmar writes: "A newgroup control message was sent out for comp.lang.php today. Many servers already carry the new group, and almost all servers around the globe should carry it within the next day or two. The new group is a wonderful place to turn to for support / questions regarding PHP, and is symbolic of PHP's coming to full power, finally entering the comp.lang.* hierarchy with the rest of the mature languages. (For those who are interested, the new group passed 177-11.) Feel free to drop by the new group, and stick around!"

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PHP sucks

[Anomolous Cow Herd]

For those of you hunting to an even uglier alternative to Perl, you'll find a friend in PHP. From the awkward string manipulation routines (who the fuck would want to use C-like functions to manipulate strings in a scripting lanugage?) to the horrendously crappy object oriented programming model, PHP has everything that nobody wants or needs in a language. Hell, you can even embed Perl in HTML pages these days in the same manner.

So, to recap, folks, PHP is...

• Prone to security holes and misc. bugs
• An awful pain to program
• Slow as a dog, even in it's intended "niche" use as a web scripting language. Anyone intending to do something serious with a website would use Servlets or at least mod_perl.