Re: php + postgresql

Obviously he is a newbie out of the woods- couldn't make a connection
and print results something that the rest of us have been doing for
years. It is newbies like him and fan-boys of Ruby/Python/Perl who
give PHP a bad name. But I fail to understand the little animosity
within some PostgreSQL users to PHP- is it the LAMP stack?
Cheers, Bill

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:40 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > I think that PHP (like PostgreSQL, perhaps?) suffers from a reputation
>> > hangover from years ago. PostgreSQL was supposedly "slow", PHP is
>> > supposedly "undisciplined" and "unprofessional". You sure can still
>>
>> Well no PHP is conceptual undisciplined and confusing. I would
>> not compare this with Postgresql itself which is very professional
>> developed with a great vision. PHP is just and always was a hack.
>
> I actually think that the analogy is valid. *Most* PHP users don't know
> its a hack, those same users are going to be the ones that think
> PostgreSQL is slow.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> P.S. To be fair, PHP has gotten much better over the last few releases.
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