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- WareLogging, IdeaLogging.
-
- = hate =
-
- * The culture.
- ** Boolean flags to functions.
- ** Detailed and highly inaccurate in-source comments about who added what and when.
- ** Code reuse should not mean ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
- ** Whitespace. How hard can this be?
- * God, I miss Perl quoting, regex syntax, and POD.
- * preg_*
- * min(), max()
- * [http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing String parsing], [http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion String conversion to numbers].
- * global
- * case-insensitive function names
- * Constants
- * include
- * Would it have been so hard to pick either of C++-like or Perl-like comment markers?
- * rename() is essentially mv.
- * Comparison operators. ===? Are you fucking kidding me?
- ** Ok, scratch this. It's not the operators, per se. It's the finicky, brittle, poorly abstracted type system that really drives me to fits of spittle-flecked rage.
- ** As an addendum, if this hasn't bitten you, either you haven't done much with the language or you just don't know how badly you're being been bitten yet.
- * <? ?>
-
- I used to miss having switch statements around in Perl. Now I'm fairly convinced they're one of the most ill-advised constructs you can make available to a vigorous amateur.
-
- Why I hate PHP, in a nutshell:
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- brennen@hyperion 12:06:16 ~ $ php -r
- function fuck () {
- print fuck;
- }
-
- FUCK();
- ''^d''
- fuck
- brennen@hyperion 12:06:41 ~ $
-
- = don't so much hate =
-
- * At least it has function prototypes.
- * It's pretty painless, syntax-wise, to build a multidimensional array.
- * file(), at least when it works.
- *
- * They finally got around to adding closures. It's flat-out amazing what this does for the language.
-
- = am somewhat bemused by =
-
- * if (! function_exists('func')) { function func () { } }
- * [http://php.net/ob_start ob_start()], ob_get_contents(), ob_end_clean() - output buffering.
-
- = whack idioms i have seen =
-
- $foo = array('something', 'some other thing');
- foreach ($foo as $bar) {
- switch($bar) {
- case 'something':
- # do a whole shit-ton of stuff
- break;
- case 'some other thing':
- # do a shit-ton of other stuff
- break;
- }
- }
-
- = perl to php =
-
- * chomp(), chop() -> [http://us.php.net/rtrim rtrim]
- * shift() -> array_shift()
-
- = other =
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- * http://www.steike.com/code/php-closures/
- * http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2
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- As annoying as one-package-one-file can occasionally be in the Perl universe, I suddenly find that it is really nice to have a predictable directory structure emerge naturally from the hierarchy of modules/classes.
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