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A Decade of PHP

Posted by Zonk on from the i'll-bring-the-cake dept.

digidave writes "It was slow to catch and a lot of people didn't get it. A lot of people still don't get it, but you can't argue with its success. June 8th, 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of PHP. Here's to ten more wonderful and exciting years."

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  1. First AC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What the hell is PHP?

  2. Re:Congratulations are in order! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If the "KISS principle" results in PHP-like code, I say we kiss the KISS principle goodbye.

  3. ASP was born in 1997 and... by webphenom · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...is far more popular and widespread than PHP ever was.

    ASP.NET was born in 2001 and is far more popular and widespread than PHP ever was.

    What's next, celebrating the anniversary of Betamax?

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    ----- Open Source = More Secure (mmmmkay)
  4. Give PHP a rest by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ten years of hard work. Now the tired PHP has earned a well deserved rest. Ruby on Rails is much more energetic at this point.

  5. Re:PHP vs JSP by asuffield · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The key point you're missing is that people are dumb.

    The clue you missed is that pretty much everything written in PHP was fairly obviously written by somebody who wasn't very bright. Have you ever seen a well-written PHP application?

    Not that java/jsp is the best system ever invented... but PHP is awful, and so it calls out to the legions of bad programmers in the world.

    Here is a good article on why PHP is awful, for those who haven't actually used it: http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/php-sucks/. It also links to a number of other articles which also make good points, at the bottom.

  6. Re:Congratulations PHP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, yeah.

    Except that Rails is going to be about 10-20x slower than your PHP application. And your PHP application is just as fast to develop if you know what you're doing.

    But hey, thanks for hyping Rails again...

  7. More like "a decade of spaghetti code" by Laconian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PHP might be easy to pick up, but boy oh boy does it encourage some bad practices. After I picked up ASP.NET, I said goodbye to the ASP/PHP paradigm and never looked back. I always shudder when I have to hack around with my Wordpress plugins, because they're just a mess of HTML interwoven with conditionals and loops. BLech! That's so 1998! Still waiting for the OSS response to ASP.NET...