Yahoo!?
Are they still going?
PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf has left Yahoo! Lerdorf announced his departure via the popular Web2.0rhea service Twitter. "Feels a bit odd to be unemployed. Probably crazy to leave the best job I have ever had," he wrote, "but after 7+ years it was time for something new." Twitter is also where Lerdorf voiced his opinion of …
PHP practically encourages you to write shit code. It's ideas of extensions are 'oh look a C API. Lets just SWIG that and whack it in'. Epic fail.
If my boss told me I was to work on a PHP product, I'd quit and sue for constructive dismissal, it is that shit. The whole language is perl for the retard generation.
AC, just in case my boss gets any ideas.
Yeah, PHP is so crap. I mean, no-one in their right mind would use it to create some of the largest websites in the world or anything, would they? Cause all other languages don't let you write crap code or anything, instead magically turning your results into Reg-commentard-friendly masterpieces.
Where's the rolleyes smilie?
You only get bad PHP code (and insecure web apps), if your a bad programmer; yes there are some bad things about it, but those have been addressed in 5/6, etc.
@Kevin Baily - spot on.
It's just like a non designer designing code, or a developer "having a stab" at HTML/CSS - it fails - when you have a non programmer programing PHP, it goes bad.