After reading Jeff Atwood article “PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter“, this got me a little fired up being a PHP developer. First off, Jeff’s blog Coding Horror, is my favorite blog at the moment and hope he continues to write for a long time as his insight into a range of areas are amazing.
Now to respond to his article, first off I have to agree with him a little regarding php just being a big list of functions, but I think he failed to note the path PHP is going down with version 5 and 6.
PHP 5 is a big step forward in terms of oo with the reflection class and the use of camelCase naming convention. And with 6 coming along and the use of namespaces (which will be released around 5.2/5.3 i believe), I believe PHP is taking the right step forward to becoming not only the most popular web language, but the most powerful aswell.
So if your going to write an article about how php sucks, please mention the road php is currently taking!
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