"PHP sucks" and contempt culture

[juan]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:19:31 +1000
"James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> 
> Most languages, especially Lisp and C++ provide support for very
> clever ways of programming, clever ways of dealing with the kind of 
> almost-the-same-but-slightly-different feature that in PHP leads to 
> massive code duplication.

	there - obviously - are php libraries, and the language has
	support for class inheritance. I don't care for php one way or
	another but your comment is technically nonsense. 


> PHP does not provide the kind of tools
> that a clever programmer makes heavy use of.  Which is part of the
> reason you find that in a big PHP the same change has to be made in a
> hundred different places, in a hundred pieces of almost-but-not-quite
> identical code.

	bullshit



> 
> PHP tends to be written by stupid people, because clever people
> notice the lack of certain features, tools, idioms more than stupid
> people, and tend to be the people that make heavy use of those
> features, tools, and idioms.
>