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Yahoo Moving to PHP

Posted by michael on from the herding-cats dept.

Erek Dyskant writes "Yahoo has decided to switch from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for their backend scripting. Here's the notes from a presentation by a Yahoo engineer at PHP Con 2002."

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  1. asdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  2. Light by yonnage · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    About time they saw the light! :)

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    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci-Fi writer Stephen King was found dead at his Maine residence this morning. Apparently, Mr. King was working in his garage when a loaded nailgun fell off of a workbench, causing it to discharge and riddle him with approximately 37 penny nails. He then fell face-first into his newly-poured concrete driveway, where he hardened and was found six hours later by his son Owen. I'm sure he will be missed by the Slashdot community - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his impact on the advancement of Objectivism as the "hip philosophy" of the 21st Century. Truly an American icon.

  4. Moderators are sick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look at this moderation war over a stupid "first post" post.

    Moderation Totals: Offtopic=19, Flamebait=3, Troll=11, Redundant=1, Insightful=9, Interesting=5, Informative=7, Funny=6, Overrated=6, Underrated=13, Total=80.

  5. Re:Dangers of PHP? I think not! by SirSlud · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    > PHP has made a grep step forward in disabling register_globals by default

    as usual, theonion.com has covered this ;)

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  6. Re:Why is PHP so bad? by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Lack of seperation between content and logic. Embedded logic code inside presentation can lead to a bewildering jungle of death for anyone who tries to maintain the code. Also, repeated logic must be maintained across all pages, instead of changing it in one place. (this goes for all ASP, PHP, perl type scripts)

    Judging by all the comments in here about "100's of lines of code pasted in different files" and all that, it's obvious you've never written PHP... There is a little statement that's called require or require_once that will, GASP WHAT A CONCEPT, INCLUDE a file! You can write all this "100's of lines of the same code" in that one file and just include it in all your others! That's what I do for page layout. Call CommonHeader(), there's my navigation bar. CommonFooter(), there's my footer.

    Sheesh people, read a little about the language before you bash it

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