On: 25 Years of PHP

[elpescado]

Long time ago I was learning Perl, because at that time basically the whole Internet ran on Perl CGI scripts. I thought, "man, Perl is weird".

Then I learnt PHP, because whole internet seemed to move to Apache+PHP. I thought, "man, that's Perl done right!".

Then I actually learnt Perl, looked at my PHP code written earlier. I thought "WTF?"

Now I use Python. I think "man, why I have to type this silly whitespace?"

[tasuki → elpescado]

I can't wait to see what's next for you!

[BiteCode_dev → elpescado]

> "man, why I have to type this silly whitespace?"

I assume it's a joke, but I often have people in my classroom that have been doing python for some times and that keep typing the whitespaces themselves instead of using an editor that does it for them.

But again, I've seen some coding without any syntax highlighting.

Now I never assume people know even the most obvious things.

[cutler → elpescado]

Did you try HTML::Mason or were you stuck with CGI::Application or even plain old cgi? Mason is like PHP but its dependenc on mod_perl made unfortunately made it a non-starter for cheap hosts. Catalyst was an abomination but I think Mojolicious deserves more adoption that it gets.