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Comment Re:English? (Score 1) 230

Also, you must have spent no time using C. In C you know exactly what you're working with. It's a simple model where you're working closer to physical memory. PHP likes to "magic" everything. The only thing C like about it is how you call functions, and even with that, you had to add headers to get any functionality, so you still knew where things were coming from. With PHP you have a vast library of functions on the global scope.

Comment Re:English? (Score 1) 230

Php (Personal Home Pages) is already something it was never intended to be. It's the "hey thats a nice feature, let me add a crappy implementation of it" language. If you mean "turn PHP into something never inteded to be" as turning it into something not absolutely horrible to work with then OK. Anything they do is going to be better than PHP. You would have to try really hard to make it worse.

Comment Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common (Score 1) 207

I keep many, many tabs open all the time in osx and windows and have no issues. Are you sure you don't have a problematic plugin.

On ubuntu, on my home machine, I find firefox unusable even after much tweaking.

I also notice that chrome handles bad javascript much better than firefox. Other than that I think firefox is a fine browser.

I'm sure most of the security exploits have to do plugins. Its a common trade off, lock it down and make it more secure or open it up and make it potentially more usable.

Comment Re:PHP (Score 1) 254

These languages you are referring to are at least consistent. PHP's only consistency is knowing your going to have to look up what ever method you want to use because there isn't a real naming convention, or even parameter ordering. The other horror of PHP is they throw in features to try to make it look like it has features other languages have. It's like someone says, hey that popular, lets throw it in PHP. Then they do a horrible implementation of it. (See namespacing, PHP OO, etc) Much like basic once had, the only thing it has going for it is its ubiquity.

No excusing PHP. No pretending its just as bad as any other language. It is a horrible nightmare to work with.

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