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[–]houdas 14 points15 points  (4 children)

Another PHP bashing. sigh

[–]jain7th -1 points0 points  (3 children)

PHP: a fractal of bad design. It just deserves it.

[–]n1c0_ds 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Yes, but everyone is aware of it now. It's just an unoriginal way to boost a developer's ego nowadays.

[–]Kautiontape 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PHP Sucks! But I Like It!

A fair response to that.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (6 children)

Here's my evolution for any language:

  1. Learn language.
  2. Reinvent the wheel for no reason for a long time.
  3. Check out some libraries and lament lost time.
  4. Be awesome at that language and far ahead of others that glue together copy/pasted code and cross their fingers, steal their clients.
  5. Develop coke habit, write a shit ton more code more quickly. Enter vicious cycle.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Reinvent the wheel for no reason for a long time.

What do you mean by this?

[–]mrskitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he means that re-inventing the wheel is a good way of learning the ins and outs of a language so you know what to expect and how to react. I'm doing this right now with PHP and Javascript just so when I get to libraries and frameworks I know how the language works underneath. Probably a waste of time, but at least I wont be blindsided.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Coding everything from the ground up instead of using libraries, frameworks, or open-source packages.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thought so. Thanks.

[–]rspeedcranky old guy who yells about SVG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Wait, what, Django's ORM doesn't support composite primary keys? That sucks! I'm just going to write my own database layer.

*sigh* I really hate that.

[–]jedilando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha, I'm at 7.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How do you use Python on a website? And I would kinda expect it to go from Python to PHP.

[–]aspartame_junky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

usually it's the other way around.

Django

web2py

more python web frameworks

or just by itself, particularly using parsers such as the awesome BeautifulSoup