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• From: Aquatakat
• Date: 02/21/2009, 11:24:02 AM

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PHP is getting stupid. Well maybe stupid isn't the right word. Needlessly complex? Well I guess it isn't needless either. I don't really know what PHP is turning into. But its large and bad and I don't think I like it.

The entire idea of extending the language with PECL plugins seems like it might be a good idea at first. But now the PHP core or I guess more like all of the extensions that it just comes with is so full of useless junk. It's overwhelming. I mean of course something good usually comes through, like that filter thing that always seemed like a good idea right from the start. But just think, what are the chances that all the sudden that crappy BB code thing becomes part of the PHP core?

And so because of all of these functions, born out of necessity is PHP namespaces which should have been there from the start. How long before PHP scripts actually start using namespaces? Not the ones written by you or anyone else that reads this site. I mean regular scripts like whatever the hell they have running on GameFAQs. The ones where it's a really big deal that they use objects. Had the developers of PHP had any forethought at all we wouldn't be having to play catchup like this.

It's just… It's just frustrating. We're pretty much stuck with PHP. PHP is installed everywhere and on everything. If you want to write an application that's at all portable, then you're writing it in PHP.

Of course all of you already know this. I really just wanted to write something with the Windows 7 speech recognition.

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