Originally Posted by edgeprod

Let me start out by saying: absolutely not. I don't punish intelligent opinions with personal attacks. If you didn't have a point, I'd definitely have been less accepting of your argument. My replies are geared toward the people reading your comments, not at you making them. One of the problems with the lack of technical sophistication on GFY is that people see a complex technical point, read about one line of it, and then run with the opinion they immediately form. So, with you making these statements, those of us in development will have to hear "but PHP sucks for all sites!" for a long time. If I don't respond with a very strong statement, that's their take-away. I hope that makes sense, and you aren't offended.

Agreed. I enforce these standards in our employees, and deliver them when I am working for a client. It makes the code maintainable, scalable, and extensible. Otherwise, you're just kidding yourself. As you know, a number of well-known projects in adult don't begin to meet proper standards, and are so poorly coded as to be embarrassing to anyone competent. Not naming any names, but I'm sure half a dozen immediately pop into your mind.

I'm a programmer, not a web developer, so C++, Python, Java, etc, are my go-to tools for most problems that need solving outside of the web sphere. My point is just that adult does not solve complex (or even interesting) problems in 90% of cases, and PHP *is* the correct language for maintainability and extensibility, if not for scalability (which most projects here don't even need).

Often, it's more important that someone else can work with your code, than the language being a better choice for X, Y, or Z reason.