>> Well no. PHP is not a professional language because it has no really
>> design - and that has nothing to do with the fact it beeing a scripting
>> language. Its a bad scripting language. (Say namespaces for example,
>> confusing function interfaces, unicode flaws, missing usable frameworks,
>> silly type handling, quoting hell)
>
> - What do you mean by confusing function interfaces and unicode flaws?
This whole discussion is about a language lawyer and a professional. The
reality is, professional programmers do use PHP. I would say probably
more than any other language out there.
Does that mean that PHP is a technically sound language? No.
Does that mean some of these professional programmers are smarter than
the language lawyers, because they can get their web apps done, quickly
and have a huge community backing them up? Yes.
Use what works for you, don't listen to others about what language to
code in.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
P.S. I don't particularly like PHP either, but our company website is
coded in it because no other language (for the web) could have done the
job at the same TCO.
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