damn_registrars's Journal: A Surprising Lack Of Results

Someone recently asked me the fairly straightforward question of how web sites form database queries based on user input, query their databases with those, and display the results. I likely omitted some possibilities but I quickly said that most sites likely use one of

• PHP
• Perl-based CGI (mysql.pm or the like)
• JSP

I then couldn't help but find myself remembering how much I despise JSP. JSP might have the most back-asswards development rules I have ever encountered, and some of the worst syntax to boot.

I then did a Google searrch for "I hate JSP" and was given a paltry 12,800 results. Strangely enough I don't think any of those pages are my own, which means it should be at least one page longer.

Although it does leave me to wonder why the number is so low. I figure one or more of the following must apply:

• The pages aren't being indexed
• The pages don't exist do to
  • Not that many people hate JSP
  • Not that many people bothered to write pages about how bad it sucks
  • Other people who started using it lost their marbles and are now in padded rooms where they have no internet access
• Other pages were written in ways that ended up not being indexed
• Other people acknowledge that it sucks but don't feel it to be relevant enough any more to dedicate pages to how badly it sucks

Yes, I hate JSP. I ordinarily don't like the word hate. I feel it is a strong word that is rarely truly justified. However when someone or something wrongs you unapologetically, then I feel that hatred can be justified, so long as the hatred is not used to justify despicable acts. Thus I hate JSP.

You prefer PHP to JSP?

[smittyoneeach]

I've been trying to reason about the WordPress codebase.
It makes my inner child frown.

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[damn_registrars]

It makes my inner child frown.

JSP makes my inner child want to eat paint chips.

At least PHP code is easy to write and deploy on your webserver. None of that obtuse ant-driven nonsense required, it deploys the same as good old-fashioned HTML.