Re: pop3 functions

Nopes i read you correctly, yours was a complaint against c. andu wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:49:43 +0600 raditha dissanayake <raditha@raditha.com> wrote:

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.

Sounds like you're talking about yourself, I never said C was a 'bad' language, I was complaining about the functions names in php, if you care to read more carefully. My point was that when creating a language you have the freedom to shape the 'vocabulary' any way you want (more or less) and it is common sense to do it so that it's easily usable by a variety of users.

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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