Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:01:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error | ||
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote:
> Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote... :
>
> > It's giving coders more work, work which looks like documenting; and we
> > all know that coders dont like to document. And being lazy has nothing
> > to do with it, it's just all practical. Dont forget that most coders
> > work on PHP because they _need_ the function they are working on in
> > their jobs.
> >
>
> that's the price of usability. Open Source always suffered from that,
> and forever will if the usability will not be considered as one of the
> main benefits, especially for a programming language as PHP.
We didn't suffer from this at all, and why is PHP not usable enough? We
have tenth of thousand users.
> I agree on 110% that it will be harder to maintain the code. I myself
> will never use any non-english errors in my PHP setups and will always
> spend precious minutes grepping for error code. But, this will benefit
> the whole project. It is not a stupid idea - it is "usability".
Then why care if you don't need it? Why do more work because only others
want/need it? IMO that's just plain dumb.
Derick
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