From: Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2003-07-31T15:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ...

Hi,

A programmer's feeling is important to him/herself... It does not mean
that PHP is bad because I think it is bad :)

I don't know any PHP debugger. I write A LITTLE php directly on Apache
and debug in IE.

Your reason defending the ; is not well established :) Please note ruby
also support ; if you want to write multiple lines of code on one line.
Javascript also support OPTIONAL ;

So it is better on this regard. By the way, I have never seen a
programmer who write code in Microsoft Word, so, the statement that a ";"
is usuful to the program that it will "survive a word processor" sounds
strange to me.

Shannon


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:33:45 +0900
"maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com" <maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com> wrote:

> > I have used PHP... it is Sh*t... mainly because of the ";". A lot of
> 
> Have you used a PHP debugger? Or do you just click the refresh button in
> Mozilla? You cant say a language is s**h just because you use ; . In PHP
> the ; is very useful eg.
> 
> <h1><?php $result=$db->getOne(); echo $value+$othervalue ?></h1>
> 
> as opposed to
> 
> <h1><?php
> $result=$db->getOne()
> echo $value+$othervalue 
> ?></h1>
> 
> "Nothing is more stubborn than a programmer defending a language" ;-)
> 

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Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com>