> Hmm are you sure? I've read the fractal of bad design many times.
Yeah, I'm sure. And so have I. Maybe you should stop reading it to reinforce your prejudice and instead take a look at PHP 7.2?
> non programming language for non programmers, who suffer stockholm syndrome from all php abuse...
Hating PHP is almost like a bad meme. Obviously it's doing something right otherwise it probably wouldn't be as popular as it is. (Same can be said for Javascript, I guess.)
Your personal feelings about the language are pretty much irrelevant. The Fractal of Bad Design article, however, is actually spreading misinformation yet people with an axe to grind keep referencing it because it fits their agenda, hence why I react whenever I see it referenced.
Here are just a couple of examples of where it's flat out wrong and/or completely outdated. There are plenty more.
He's left in things that were fixed long before he published the article — e.g. the new array syntax — but that doesn't stop him from saying stuff like "Despite that this is the language’s only data structure, there is no shortcut syntax for it; array(...) is shortcut syntax. (PHP 5.4 is bringing “literals”, [...].)" Keep in mind, 5.4 was already out when he wrote it...
Not to mention the whole section on "missing features" where he basically enumerates things that most certainly doesn't belong in a language's core but in separate libraries or part of a framework, and —
surprise! — those are all available in both libraries, frameworks, extensions, etc.
Yeah, I'm sure. And so have I. Maybe you should stop reading it to reinforce your prejudice and instead take a look at PHP 7.2?
> non programming language for non programmers, who suffer stockholm syndrome from all php abuse...
Hating PHP is almost like a bad meme. Obviously it's doing something right otherwise it probably wouldn't be as popular as it is. (Same can be said for Javascript, I guess.)
Your personal feelings about the language are pretty much irrelevant. The Fractal of Bad Design article, however, is actually spreading misinformation yet people with an axe to grind keep referencing it because it fits their agenda, hence why I react whenever I see it referenced.
Here are just a couple of examples of where it's flat out wrong and/or completely outdated. There are plenty more.
He's left in things that were fixed long before he published the article — e.g. the new array syntax — but that doesn't stop him from saying stuff like "Despite that this is the language’s only data structure, there is no shortcut syntax for it; array(...) is shortcut syntax. (PHP 5.4 is bringing “literals”, [...].)" Keep in mind, 5.4 was already out when he wrote it...
Not to mention the whole section on "missing features" where he basically enumerates things that most certainly doesn't belong in a language's core but in separate libraries or part of a framework, and — surprise! — those are all available in both libraries, frameworks, extensions, etc.
"There is no threading support whatsoever." pthreads have been stable since 2013: http://pecl.php.net/package/pthreads