Tobias Schlitt describes Tim Bray’s talk at the International PHP Conference. (PDF slides) Tim compares PHP, Java, and Rails along several dimensions. One of those dimensions is maintainability. Tim ranks PHP as least maintainable, Rails in the middle, and Java as most maintainable.
This is not a surprising ranking. [...]
Why is PHP Code Considered Hard to Maintain?
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July 29th, 2004There is a discussion on the PHP Internals list about adding a GOTO statement to PHP (via NuCleuZ).
A little History … (lest we forget)
Gotos have had a long and sordid history in computer science. In the early days, before languages had a rich set of control structures, goto’s were it. It turned out [...]
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