There is nothing wrong with PHP

Fact: Only a complete and utter retard would use anything but PHP to program for the Web. Perl and Python are for elitist, overeducated cunts who are desperately trying to justify the time they waste learning how to write slow, unreadable noise.

ok

thanks for telling us

I remember web perl before php, thanks.

>>3
I still write cgis in Perl, PHP is kind of useless for what I do.

Enjoy not coding in the Enterprise.

The only thing I hate is the $ in front of variables; it looks ugly to me.

class Main
{
    public str1 = 1;
    public str2 = 2;
   
    public function SomeFunction()
    {
        if (str1 < str2)
            print "str2 is greater than str1";
        else
        {
            print "str1 is greater than str2";
        };
    }
}

Main::SomeFunction();

PHP would look so much better if it removed those dollar signs, and looked like that.

>>6
I agree, the dollar sign was a turn off for me as well. All these piggy banks floating around make the whole thing out as a toy

>>7

Some people make the rebuttal "BUT WHAT ABOUT USING THE VARIABLE INSIDE OF A STRING?"

Like this:

ten = "ten";

echo <<<HERE
I am %{ten}, and what is this?
HERE;

>>8
You just made it worse. Although, if you insist, in Perl you can do ${string}, I'm not sure about PHP.

PHP is like the VB of dynamic content generation, although at least it has slightly better C-based syntax.

Actually, when used properly, a variable prefix can be a boon to a language, in that you don't have to break 10 million lines of old code out there every time you add a keyword. That's what e.g. the LLVM assembly language uses it for.

You have to use them for functions too, but in a non-low level language, functions are just variables anyway, right? Right!

So even though it does hurts readability, it's not entirely without it's place. It would even make some sense in a primitive templating language like PHP, in that most uses of variables would be inside strings, except lol injection. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that PHP is shit, and that you, >>1, should just stick with Myspace.

>>11
Maybe I'm going insane, but that actually makes sigils sound useful. HIBT?

Perl and Python are for elitist
Perl is most assuredly better than PHP for string manipulation, validation, whatever.

>>13
IHBT.
Fixed that for you.

>>1
Fuck you.

>>1
overeducated
:confus: ??

>>16

He's confusing education with academia