PHP

[22:24:13] <~moots> man people here must be EXPERT PROGRAMMERS
[22:24:17] <~moots> go post on /prog/ more, they'll love you

What are your opinions on php?

>>36
Python seems very elegant compared to a lot of programming languages.

It's perfectly clear if you've ever written C. It will look familiar if you've ever written BASIC. If you're not an idiot you'll be able to jump right in from Java (But then again, if you're not an idiot, why on earth were you using Java in the first place?) It might even be sort of grokkable if all you've ever written is Lisp.

The only somewhat common language I'd honestly believe you'd have a problem coming in from would be C++. But then again, C++ programmers have irregular and arcane syntax permanently fused together with basic programming concepts in their brains, and will never amount to much anyway.

Now Ruby, there's a beast from another world. I don't object to any specific feature, but when it all comes together it seems so horribly unstructured to me. Some kind of Perl-Smalltalk mish-mash. What are you going to do with such a silly-putty language, throw clumps of it at the problem until something sticks?

Scheme seems very elegant compared to a lot of programming languages.

It's perfectly clear if you've ever written Common Lisp. It will look familiar if you've ever written Dylan. If you're not an idiot you'll be able to jump right in from RLisp (But then again, if you're not an idiot, why on earth were you using RLisp in the first place?) It might even be sort of grokkable if all you've ever written is Dylan.

The only somewhat common language I'd honestly believe you'd have a problem coming in from would be Arc. But then again, Arc programmers have irregular and arcane syntax permanently fused together with basic programming concepts in their brains, and will never amount to much anyway.

Now CLOS, there's a beast from another world. I don't object to any specific feature, but when it all comes together it seems so horribly unstructured to me. Some kind of Flavors-Common LOOPS mish-mash. What are you going to do with such a silly-putty language, throw clumps of it at the problem until something sticks?

>>42
What are you going to do with such a silly-putty language, throw clumps of it at the problem until something sticks?

Valid Lisp development methodology.

>>43
What did you think was going to happen, /prog/?

Did you think you were going to hit your project with that ball of Lisp, and little, recursive lambda expressions would come pouring out?

>>44
I thought I was going to leverage Lisp's REPL and dynamic nature to develop my program through many quick iterations. So, "yes". ：（

>>41
It seems. Doesn't mean it is.

>>46
What is the difference?

>>46
Learn to ducktyping

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

>>9
it's pretty good now, but it will have to remain POWERED BY BBCODE for the near future because writing a lexer or trie in php would suck so much

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