destroy PHP

Looks like Visual Basic should be killed first, according to the TIOBE index of programming language popularity.

I say we incite the PHP and VB communities against eachother in a death match, so we’ll get rid of at least one of them and decimate the other.

... and no Model-View-Controller separation (although you can certainly do MVC in PHP).

PHP itself is a crap language and http://tnx.nl/php explains very well why.

It does destroy itself.

As true as aredridel’s statement may be, there’s something about having to use it every day that keeps me continually wanting to destroy it.

I’ve been acting on the urge, actually. I’ve downloaded the source code for PHP5 and have been tearing through it trying to get a grasp on it to see what I can do to it to make it better. While I’m still trying to figure things out as far as the code is concerned, not being proficient in C these days doesn’t help, I’m still planning some things to change, though simple at first: function names can include ? and !, and can be new (which is currently restricted simply as a reserved word). So, in effect, I’m trying to loosen up some of the naming requirements and allowing functions with the reserved keywords as their names.

Honestly, I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’m looking and seeing what I can change. The code is really kind of scary, making little logical sense at times (with lberrs and lberrors, etc).

At least I’m seeing if there’s some way I can make a positive affect on the language, instead of just adding in Unicode support, et al. Some deep changes such as syntaxes, et al. For instance, I’d love to add array literals with []s!

M.T.

PHP destroys itself. Don’t bother ;-)