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Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by dahart » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

ghaydarov wrote: post #2

Is it just me, was author sarcastic all along? Hearing for the first time that reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

It was 100% joke/sarcasm, there were no true statements except the part at the bottom about Fuzz hiring both node and php devs. The graphs are jokes too. He is implying that re-inventing the wheel is a bad thing. Unfortunately, that's a strawman for any language.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by thrusong » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

jimjag wrote: post #13

Many languages WISH they were as popular and as useful as PHP.

I know people hate PHP, but I love it. I was able to completely automate my home theatre using it- it uses an Insteon Hub and HTTP commands to drive my dimmers, projector plug, and motorized curtain. I can control the whole room with a website. I can schedule shows or start something immediately and my PHP cron job runs everything, even bringing the lights up for the credits.

To me, PHP is extremely versatile and powerful.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by raresp » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

jimjag wrote: post #13

Many languages WISH they were as popular and as useful as PHP.

good point

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by kerryritter » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

raresp wrote: post #20

"By writing their own framework, a developer can truly separate themselves from their competition by reinventing the wheel in a way that makes sense to them." Now I know you're not a good developer. Do you want to reinvent the wheel everytime you code? Have you heard about composer packages? About libraries with millions of downloads? About symfony components and many more reusable components. You are too ignorant to…

This is a satire piece.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by smaili » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

FWIW, the reason there is an empty space after the equals and before the semicolon is because there's supposed to be a poop emoji -- i.e., PHP is "poop". It's a pity, my initial reaction seeing the headline was somebody had found an interesting hack with that particular syntax.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by ashnehete » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

raresp wrote: post #20

"By writing their own framework, a developer can truly separate themselves from their competition by reinventing the wheel in a way that makes sense to them." Now I know you're not a good developer. Do you want to reinvent the wheel everytime you code? Have you heard about composer packages? About libraries with millions of downloads? About symfony components and many more reusable components. You are too ignorant to…

Maybe you just didn't get the point, or are you trying to be sarcastic too?

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Post by nallerooth » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

raresp wrote: post #20

"By writing their own framework, a developer can truly separate themselves from their competition by reinventing the wheel in a way that makes sense to them." Now I know you're not a good developer. Do you want to reinvent the wheel everytime you code? Have you heard about composer packages? About libraries with millions of downloads? About symfony components and many more reusable components. You are too ignorant to…

Sarcasm?

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by slouch » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:35 PM UTC

"It’s well known that PHP is a dead programming language" https://medium.com/fuzz/php-a0d0b1d365d8

"29% of the web uses WordPress" https://wordpress.org/

Are these statements mutually exclusive?

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Post by amyjess » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

slouch wrote: post #28

"It’s well known that PHP is a dead programming language" https://medium.com/fuzz/php-a0d0b1d365d8 "29% of the web uses WordPress" https://wordpress.org/ Are these statements mutually exclusive?

The article is satire.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by ianhawes » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

This past July it was adorable to see DHH and the RoR community excited over the release of Active Storage, an abstraction layer for local and cloud files.

Flysystem for PHP had been around for almost 5 years prior, and Laravel had it integrated almost 2 years by that point.

There are very innovative things happening in the PHP world that most Ruby/Python elitists don’t even know about. I encourage everyone to take a look.