"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"

Post by registeredtosay » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 4:12 AM UTC

tbatterii wrote: post #148

ghc wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are absolutely correct, of course. But he was sharing his personal frustrations with C++, not engaging in the programming equivalent of "slut-shaming" someone for using C++. That's an important distinction that I think has been lost with the HN community. Without criticism, nothing would get better, but if you criticize someone for making something or making a choice, you might just encourage them to stop being a…

not being a girl myself, I suspect that a girl who has been "slut shamed" would probably take offense at someone referring to our circle jerks about one's favorite tool(s) to be considered "slut shaming". Lets keep things in perspective here.

Post by sambeau » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 11:01 PM UTC

Joeri wrote: post #167

sambeau wrote: post #23

I spat my coffee out at this bit: if you want a quick fix go buy "learn PHP in ten minutes" and spend the next twenty years googling for "how do I compute the length of a string"

He's right though, PHP has no reliable way to obtain the length of a string in characters, unless you keep track of which character set a string is in and carefully manipulate the mbstring functions. Doing multibyte string handling properly in PHP is way harder than it should have been.