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| From: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
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| To: | "Arturo Perez" <aperez(at)hayesinc(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator |
| Date: | 2006-09-15 12:51:00 |
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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>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631831
>
The title of the article is funny:
"Is PHP The Cure For The 'Broken' Web?"
In my opinion PHP is the main reason why so many websites, apps and servers
are broken! The other reason is probably MySQL ;).
To paraphrase Rasmus: PHP "is completely broken in so many ways".
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.
Taking his advice on software is like taking a coprophagist's advice on
fine dining.
Link.
| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| 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.