Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

you got it the other way round - it's going to get ***better***. I agree with the rest of your msg. At 00:46 10.5. 2001, Tim Uckun wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >>Finally, one language issue that is a real pet peeve of mine is case >>sensitive variable definitions. This is not a problem in either CFM or ASP. >>While it can be somewhat worked around by setting the PHP error level >>reporting to flag uninitialized variables, it is a deficiency that is long >>overdue to be corrected. > > From what I hear it's about to get worse. Instead of making variable names case > insensitive they are going to make the function names case sensitive too. Seems like they want to > make the language more C like. >As for other stuff my pet peeve is the lack of consistency in the functions. Look at all the >string functions. Most of them work on a string but some one the string first some want it last some >want it somewhere in the middle. It's even worse with database functions. Because each >function is written by somebody else it uses a different calling convention or returns different >things. PHP definately lacks the cohesiveness and intuitiveness of other scripting languages. I >don't want to rag on it too much because obviously the good points of it outweigh the bad >points for me but especially in large projects that require multiple programmers I really wish it >was more cohesive. As it is I am never really confident about using any function without first >checking the manual. In Perl or python I can pretty much guess what a function is going to do 90 >percent of the time. > > > >:wq >Tim Uckun >Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/ Americas >Background Investigation Expert. >If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered the risks >of a bad hire. > > >-- >PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7