Preservation of system state considered harmful

[Mike Cheponis]

Forget PHP and Perl, think Python!

-Mike


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Will Lowe wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:06:38 -0800
> From: Will Lowe <harpo@thebackrow.net>
> To: bad@bad.debian.net
> Subject: Re: Preservation of system state considered harmful
> 
> Hmm.  Might be interesting to file a wishlist bug against the Debian
> package requesting that it complain loudly at upgrade time if
> register_globals is on.
>
> Frankly, I despise PHP for things like this.  The developers don't
> seem to care about backwards compatibility, like to make random large
> changes in the middle of a stable series ... the whole thing has the
> air of not being very well thought through from the beginning.  At
> first I thought it was a maturity thing -- Perl's doesn't have a lot
> of the same issues, but it's a lot older, too.
>
> Nowadays I think it's just that Larry and crew have their sh*t
> together better than the PHP guys, because PHP has had plenty of time
> to mature.
>
> -- 
> 					thanks,
>
> 					Will
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