Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <5061cf25$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5063a179$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5063eba2$0$29997$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1348754357 6039 64.122.56.22 (27 Sep 2012 13:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:59:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30293 On 2012-09-27, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Given how Perl has slipped in the last decade or so, that would be a step >> backwards for Python :-P > > LAMP usually means PHP these days. There's a lot of that around. Yea, unfortunately. What a mess of a language. I recently had to learn enough PHP to make some changes to a web site we had done by an outside contractor. PHP feels like it was designed by taking a half-dozen other languages, chopping them into bits and then pulling random features/syntax/semantics at random from the various different piles. Those bits where then stuck together with duct tape and bubble gum and called PHP... As one of the contractors who wrote some of the PHP said: "PHP is like the worst parts of shell, Perl, and Java all combined into one language!" -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Did something bad at happen or am I in a gmail.com drive-in movie??