Re: pop3 functions

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:40:31 -0500 Ken <kenzo@free-music.com> wrote: > Those weird function names are taken straight from C. Blame the > inventors of C. PHP is partly intended to be easy to learn for C > programmers. I'm wondering how many php users are C programmers... Can only blame the php inventors for using a bad model. > > - Ken > > At 02:15 PM 8/16/2003 -0400, andu wrote: > >I take the opportunity to express my 2 major problems I found with > >php in the 2 months I've been using it. > >First is the naming of functions (whoever was the illiterate one who > >invented them) definitely not meant to be remembered or to represent > >what they actually do. It's a shame to have to fill our minds with > >such garbage: strcasecmp, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcspn, stripos, > >stristr, strspn, strstr, to take just a few. A programming language > >has already its problems for not being natural, no need to make it > >even more so. Second, it the array overkill. > >Nevertheless, I love it. > > > -- Regards, Andu Novac