Re: pop3 functions

andu wrote:

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.

Just because you cannot understand something does not mean it's bad. Your mail arrived to this mailing list through several mail nodes writted purely in C.

- 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.

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