PHP: a fractal of bad design

[Dentafrice]

No, the language was designed to be easy to get into. The uses of the language in a good way were ultimately a secondary objective as is shown by the overly flexible nature of PHP. The result? A sub-par language with many inadequacies because they were too busy trying to please people who don't want to do things properly.

Don't want to indent? Who cares, just stick it all on one line if you want.
Don't want to use brackets on if statements and stuff it all on one line? Go ahead, it might hurt readability and cause issues when expanding if statements into multiple lines but we don't want stuff breaking more than it needs to.
Undefined variable? Make a cute little error and keep on going like nothing happened, no need to upset the programmer.

PHP was designed to keep on chugging on at all costs FIRST, web development SECOND leading people to learn bad practices and just disable error reporting when they can't be bothered to fix a minor error.

Haha, even funnier. You now are going from what PHP is designed for architecture and feature wise, to the semantics of what you think it was designed for usage wise on a personal level. Dude... give up... you're wrong. You're making yourself look like a fool, especially with comments such as these:

A sub-par language with many inadequacies because they were too busy trying to please people who don't want to do things properly.

What is properly? Are you the definition of proper? Do you have the knowledge to say that PHP is not acceptable because you know what's proper? I don't think so.

And what's with the ******* attitude recently anyway? You think because you work in the business for real now you suddenly get to decide who's right and who's wrong about stuff? Get a grip and stop insulting anyone who's trying to make a start around this place because you used to be a positive influence here, I can't say much to that recently with hurtful put-downs and non-constructive feedback. Half the posts you've made in technology discussion have been flaunting about the fact you have a job and the ones in here have all been about how you're so professional and have such a fantastic work ethic that you can't be doubted. Fact is I don't have to respect or even acknowledge your opinion and I doubt I will any-more until you quit being so condescending. You're hardly the only web developer and you're far from the best.

I never said I was the best, and I never said I was the only. Quit putting words in my mouth. It's obvious you never paid attention to my posts in the past, I've always had an attitude. Anyone from D&D (56ers) will know that. It's definitely not recently. You may just have noticed that as I've posted more recently than I have in the past two years. Definitely not new.

I have not flaunted one bit. You seem to like to bring up issues that you've found on Google that you have no idea about (37signals incident). In fact, in the thread yesterday I never once mentioned "how professional I am, and how I have such a fantastic work ethic".. in fact.. I never once said I was professional nor had a great work ethic.. all I said was what happened to the company prior to me having responsibility was not a measurable factor on my work ethic. Again, quit putting words into my mouth.

Fact is I don't have to respect or even acknowledge your opinion and I doubt I will any-more until you quit being so condescending.

Nope, your certainly don't. Never said you did. You're the one attacking my posts. My initial post on this thread was not targeted to you, nor was my second. You quoted me and "attempted" to be right, and it didn't work. If you don't want my attitude, don't pick a fight... but if you pick a fight with someone, prepare to accept someone with an attitude because that's how I operate. Don't like it, don't pick a fight.

[Chippiewill]

Nope, your certainly don't. Never said you did. You're the one attacking my posts. My initial post on this thread was not targeted to you, nor was my second. You quoted me and "attempted" to be right, and it didn't work. If you don't want my attitude, don't pick a fight... but if you pick a fight with someone, prepare to accept someone with an attitude because that's how I operate. Don't like it, don't pick a fight.

There's a difference between having a debate and making a declaration that you're the one that's right.