Re: PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: Arturo Perez <aperez(at)hayesinc(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator
Date: 2006-09-15 14:07:26
Message-ID: 20060915140725.GE525@alvh.no-ip.org
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Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> At 11:27 AM 9/14/2006 -0400, Arturo Perez wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Any response to this:
> ><http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631831>

> PHP makes "wrong things" easy, and "right things" hard.
>
> Evidence: "addslashes", "register_globals" and "magic quotes".
>
> More evidence: PHP Nuke, phpBB, PDO vs PEAR DB.

More evidence: the PHP codebase is horrible. It gave me nightmares for
weeks when I worked on PL/php. I'm really glad I work on Postgres
instead.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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