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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Interesting; thanks for that article. It definitely gives some food for thought. It's always nice to hear from the "been there, done that" crowd about what decisions they made, and why.
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Lengthy thread, well worth the read. There were some points I was waiting for a quote from "The Mythical Man-Month".
Several things which were not raised included:
-- porn industry introduced a lot of innovations which are now used by other internet marketers;
-- most PHP are self-taught, with almost no programming background other than HTML, Javascript and CSS (which are interpreted or script languages);
-- most startups are small and remain small, and don't have the manpower, skill and training to go to any other language other than what is readily available; and
-- and yes, most PHP code have errors due to the inherent weakness of the language, and then coded by people who don't know what happens when there's no validation.
Bottom line people will still use PHP because they don't know anything else.
Again, thanks for the heads up. Will keep that in mind when I'm debugging PHP code.