[BNM] 1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a language war ! (was Hot news: Microsoft buys OScommerce!)

[Mark Ng]

The solid majority of available open-source code written in PHP is
absolute dog crap.  As for security flaws, most (most, not all)
security flaws in PHP applications reflect the general quality of code
written in PHP, rather than PHP itself (there have been one or two
security flaws in PHP itself over the years, but not inordinately
large numbers).

Also, .NET and PHP aren't equal comparisons - one is a framework,
another is a language.

Eclipse is horrid.  Lots of great features, but a horrid UI and I've
ranted about instability of various JVM's on many other occasions.

Textmate is my favourite means of writing PHP code.  the presence of
textmate is the one thing that stopped me returning my macbook and
buying a dell instead about 3 months ago when I had all sorts of
problems with it.

On 06/07/07, Wayne Douglas <wayne at codingvista.com> wrote:
> Uh??!?! So it just 'works out the box' does it? Whenever i try to
> install some OS SVN tools or whatever - built in PHP - it always tells
> me what version to go for and it's never the latest because of this and
> that security flaw or sumsuch guff.
>
> And on another point:
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/35kbw3*
>
> or
> [http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=Where+%5C%24_POST+-addslashes+lang%3Aphp]
>
> I'm sure it's a good tool, I've never really gotten into it so I
> shouldn't even be commenting - fair enough. But it certainly aint no
> saint. You don't hear me chuffing on the love length of C# or scratching
> at Anders Hejlsbergs zip all day long.
>
> I have to work with it and to be honest I find Visual Studio 2005/2008
> f**&king wicked IDEs. Everytime I try to use eclipse the f*(&ker crashes
> and freezes linux. I don't even get a friking project going. Telling me
> that's good?!?!
>
> Roooooooooooooooooight...