Re: pop3 functions

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:10:25 +0600 "jabber@raditha.com" <jabber@raditha.com> wrote: > Nopes i read you correctly, yours was a complaint against c. Good thing you didn't take it as a complaint against you... > > > 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. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>-- > >> > >>Raditha Dissanayake > >>------------------------------------------------------------- > >>http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ > >>Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with Graphical User Inteface. > >>just 150 Kilo Bytes > >> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Raditha Dissanayake > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ > Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with Graphical User Inteface. > just 150 Kilo Bytes > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- Andu