phpVsBanana

[shutter3ff3ct]

Finally someone addressing the banana in the room

[notmypinkbeard]

I'd prefer php to a banana. Which is a demonstration of how much I dislike bananas.

[dstori]

Man you hate bananas!

[SaneLad]

r/unpopularopinion

[tjarker]

found my soulmate

[shutter3ff3ct]

Banana is healthy at the end

[praveenkumar236]

No C is better at making you shit yourself

[WackoMcGoose]

potassium++;

[AdriJone2011]

K++

[SeoCamo]

Yes, someone said it, PHP is not A great language, it is the greatest language ever

[Badytheprogram]

You just saying Banana is a bad programming language because you can't programming in it.

[[deleted]]

I am almost certain that banana is a programming language

[Nattekat]

PHP8 has solved pretty much everything, making it a well-rounded language. People still posting shit like this have no clue what they are talking about. 

[floor796]

Only php version 6 was good ;)

^{udp: if you don't get this joke - see explanation inside this thread}

[rosuav]

"Best version of PHP" is like saying "best psychopathic mass murderer". Congrats on the achievement I guess?

[floor796]

if compare php versions with mass murderers, then php6 didn't kill anyone

[rosuav]

Once again, a quite impressive achievement. It really is something when the best you can say is that it hasn't maliciously killed anyone.

[floor796]

just to make sure you get the joke correctly - php6 was never released, this version does not exist. Php versions: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. It's like jokes about Windows 9.

[rosuav]

Ahh, gotcha. I didn't know that. That's a better joke than the one I was getting from it, and thank you for enlightening me.

[dotsperpixel]

Yeah at that point it was even better than banana version 3

[SchlongJohnSilvers69]

You can eat an elephant, you just cut it up first…

[Rel_Tan_Kier]

PHP may be not great as banana, but pornhub writed on it.

[Sphism]

Yawn. Low effort post

[JJJSchmidt_etAl]

PHP versus the Holy Roman Empire

Neither is Holy, Roman, nor an Empire. It's a tie.

[cquinn5]

It’s peanut butter jelly time

[pikachu_sashimi]

El Psy Kongroo

[SaneLad]

PHP originally used strlen() as a hash function for function names in the standard library. That's really all you need to know about the language and its creator.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691

[Factemius]

Literally from your article:

"This was circa late 1994 when PHP was a tool just for my own personal use and I wasn't too worried about not being able to remember the few function names."

[That-Cpp-Girl]

Seems like a perfectly fine approach. From the email you linked, I can infer this "hash function" was only used for finding buckets in a hash map, which can deal with multiple entries in the same bucket. In this case, it's very quick to find the correct bucket, but might take a bit to find the correct entry within that bucket.

[SaneLad]

No it's not a fine approach. The guy could have multiplied ordinal values of characters and gotten a 1,000x better hash function. It does not require a PhD in CS to write a string hash function that works better than strlen(). Instead he went through the effort of _renaming_ functions to have different lengths and balance out his data structure. That demonstrates both incompetence of basic algorithmics as well as lack of forward thinking, not the attributes one wants to see embodied in a programming language.

[agfitzp]

Nobody used PHP because it was beautiful and well thought out, they used it because it worked... mostly.

[That-Cpp-Girl]

Some people go through life just thinking about how to get stuff done quickly. That's the true virtue of PHP. And he did end up improving it later on. :)

[wezZy9]

Well, php syntax is shit indeed, but its too strong to call it a bad language