What's the new trend? Flames for PHP. Let's everyone join and destroy this shameful thing which is clearly aimed for noobs, not for us! But after 15 years and tens of thousands of lines of code in POSIX C, C++, Delphi, Perl, etc I found I like PHP the most! Why? Personal preference here: -Great syntax. Yes, great syntax.Which for me means:
C-like blocks, not the delphi's funny stuff, not python's space-based block detection!. Who didn't try to remove semicolons or blocks for fun when they first wrote their first compiler? Well this isn't for fun. I want {.} not tabs and spaces. Why change something that works so good? Even friends who like python have nothing to say about this 'feature'. -sane array syntax. Not Perl's @,$,etc maddness. -lots of supported interoperability with OS shared libraries. And this code runs fast. -reliability. I don't recall seeing a segfault from a PHP process. Where I frequently see our python (2.6) processes segfaulting. -mod_php. Reliable. Works. -PDO database abstraction layer. I mean Oracle's OCI support was working fine even for external LOBs from 1999 in PHP3, but PDO was a step in the right direction. -Modern features added lately (closures, etc). -Great, and I mean great, documentation. That alone is a big plus. -Several good and easy enough Frameworks (I don't mean Zend) So we have a language which is reliable, supported, has modern features, can call most.so libraries I care about, has great DB interoperability, has a syntax I can work with, works good with apache. Why complain so much? Just point out what you don't like and request for changes. All this "I hate php with passion" seems very strange to me. -S
+ I like how the stories "raise" when you click on them + the overall look is much better than the previous one -reading comments is pretty unusable due to very high cpu suggestions:
-some things need reduced padding, namely:
left menu
items
text content on the boxes to the right -the left menu (stories, recent) need to go a bit further down, in par with the rest of the page columns -consider changing all these #e6e6e6 and #e3e3e3... to #eee and adding a #ccc 1px border to each story that would disappear when it's "raised" by clicking
This is usual, movies are banned all the time, and the next week/month they are un-banned. Most of the times it's a marketing trick. I once went into a movie here in greece called "naked lunch" by Cronenberg, it was on 1-2 theaters, and the theater I went had only 5-10 viewers. A policeman came 10 minutes before the end and stoped the movie! He said it was banned because of showing drugs, and of course the next week it was in the theaters again and the theaters were full!
I just got the video playing. I have a 1.7Ghz P4, the cpu goes to 100% and the frame rate is below 1 frame/3 seconds in wmplayer9/win2k. Besides that, the quality is very good, but there is nothing astonishing with it. The video is at 6MBps, and if you consider that most mpeg-4 and divx content is encoded at 900Kbits then I don't see the breakthrough. BTW video size is said by researchers in most video conferences in the field that is going to be reduced at most 100% in the next 10 years. So don't expect much from the future. As for the HD-DVD, 1080i is still low (but close) compared to 35mm film.
Spiros Ioannou -- Image Video & Multimedia Systems Lab. Department of Electrical & Computer Eng. National Technical University of Athens
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What's the new trend? Flames for PHP. Let's everyone join and destroy this shameful thing which is clearly aimed for noobs, not for us! .so libraries I care about, has great DB interoperability, has a syntax I can work with, works good with apache. Why complain so much? Just point out what you don't like and request for changes. All this "I hate php with passion" seems very strange to me.
But after 15 years and tens of thousands of lines of code in POSIX C, C++, Delphi, Perl, etc I found I like PHP the most! Why?
Personal preference here:
-Great syntax. Yes, great syntax.Which for me means:
C-like blocks, not the delphi's funny stuff, not python's space-based block detection!. Who didn't try to remove semicolons or blocks for fun when they first wrote their first compiler? Well this isn't for fun. I want {.} not tabs and spaces. Why change something that works so good? Even friends who like python have nothing to say about this 'feature'.
-sane array syntax. Not Perl's @,$,etc maddness.
-lots of supported interoperability with OS shared libraries. And this code runs fast.
-reliability. I don't recall seeing a segfault from a PHP process. Where I frequently see our python (2.6) processes segfaulting.
-mod_php. Reliable. Works.
-PDO database abstraction layer. I mean Oracle's OCI support was working fine even for external LOBs from 1999 in PHP3, but PDO was a step in the right direction.
-Modern features added lately (closures, etc).
-Great, and I mean great, documentation. That alone is a big plus.
-Several good and easy enough Frameworks (I don't mean Zend)
So we have a language which is reliable, supported, has modern features, can call most
-S
I totally agreeewaaaaa
+ I like how the stories "raise" when you click on them
+ the overall look is much better than the previous one
-reading comments is pretty unusable due to very high cpu
suggestions:
-some things need reduced padding, namely:
left menu
items ... to #eee and adding a #ccc 1px border to each story that would disappear when it's "raised" by clicking
text content on the boxes to the right
-the left menu (stories, recent) need to go a bit further down, in par with the rest of the page columns
-consider changing all these #e6e6e6 and #e3e3e3
This is usual, movies are banned all the time, and the next week/month they are un-banned. Most of the times it's a marketing trick.
I once went into a movie here in greece called "naked lunch" by Cronenberg, it was on 1-2 theaters, and the theater I went had only 5-10 viewers. A policeman came 10 minutes before the end and stoped the movie! He said it was banned because of showing drugs, and of course the next week it was in the theaters again and the theaters were full!
I just got the video playing. I have a 1.7Ghz P4, the cpu goes to 100% and the frame rate is below 1 frame/3 seconds in wmplayer9/win2k. Besides that, the quality is very good, but there is nothing astonishing with it. The video is at 6MBps, and if you consider that most mpeg-4 and divx content is encoded at 900Kbits then I don't see the breakthrough. BTW video size is said by researchers in most video conferences in the field that is going to be reduced at most 100% in the next 10 years. So don't expect much from the future. As for the HD-DVD, 1080i is still low (but close) compared to 35mm film.
Spiros Ioannou
--
Image Video & Multimedia Systems Lab.
Department of Electrical & Computer Eng.
National Technical University of Athens
I suggest reading "the view from nowhere" (Nagel T. 1986). It is a philosophy book relative to these issues.
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