Re: PHP 5.1

Sheesh, here we go again... I'm a professional PHP developer who doesn't like to see the language get smeared and bad-named every time a oh-so-neat feature is taken by 90% of "web developers" and misused in such a way that makes code unmaintainable and insecure. Go have a look at the number of security reports related to PHP applications out there... I do tend to think that active, positive criticism is a way of contributing, but that might be just me. As is bug reporting, documentation, and all the other things that don't involve knowing C or C++ (which I'm learning, as a way to "contribute" more -- thanks for the encouragement, btw!) I stand by my opinion: PHP is not the right tool for building a dedicated parser: if all you have is a hammer... On 6/7/05, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Nelson Menezes wrote: > > > > Uh? EVERY parser generater that I know of uses goto, and it's definitely > > > not a problem if the generate 'spagetticode' - as nobody ever has to > > > even look at that code. > > > > If you want to build a full-blown parser, PHP is not your language. If > > you need a code generator, you have a problem. > > And who are you telling me what I can and what I can't do with PHP? How > much did *you* contribute? > > Derick > -- Nelson Menezes flying.mushroom@gmail.com