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Comparing PHP with other languages

February 9th, 2006

Chris Shiflett posted some thoughts on PHP and Ruby on Rails which has generated some interesting discussion. Chris divides programming languages into two categories:

Flexible and powerful: PHP, C, C++, and Perl.
Structured and organized: Java, Ruby, and ASP.NET.

I don’t disagree with the cultural grouping. PHP’s cultural heritage is definitely in the Unix programming, C/Perl [...]

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Hump Day Blues

February 1st, 2006

I’m in a foul mood today. What good is having a blog if you can’t rant a bit?

To doctor X: We had an appointment at 11am. You called and asked us to change it to 10am. We were your first patient of the day, we came at 10 and you didn’t see [...]

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