Re: PHP is a Bloated Kludge, discuss!

> PHP on the other hand seems to load in ALL the code that MAY be run. i.e. > an include brings things in which are inside an if, even if the if equates > to false. That's not true. if(condition) include 'file'; That will only include the file if the condition is true. Very easy to verify for yourself. So a bunch of your points related to this are void. > Then there is the way database connectivity is handled. > > There are a load of functions (again in the core language) with there NAMES > containing the name of the database you are connecting to. > > For example all MySQL functions are mysql_something and I guess all oracle > ones are oracle_something. This would only be a minor inconvenience > because wrapper functions can be written but from what I can gather > different databases have different functionality available. There is both a C-level abstraction layer called dbx and a user-space one in PEAR. Plus a number of others. So again, this makes your next points void. > Got a nast feeling that ASP (spit) does something like this. As does PHP if you had bothered to look. -Rasmus