A serious PHP design flaw – watch out!
Today I discovered a quite disturbing fact about the way php handles array indexing. Talk about bad language design…
What’s new in php5.3?
As the release of php 5.3 is nigh, let’s take a look and see what the php guys have messed up erm.. improved this time. The world of the interpreted langues had passed by php a long time ago, can this old dog learn a few new tricks? I hope so. I work with php on a daily basis, and I don’t like it – its current state. Anyone who have written some real world ruby or python code can see what I mean – php just “sucks”, it feels heavy and bound, sometimes it’s just a pain in the ass. This of course doesn’t mean php isn’t one of the best platforms for web development… yes, I say platform, not a language. Anyway, let’s see what we’ve got here.
