This 4-minute video is hilarious! But, it also highlights a pet peeve of mine - that the current crop of programming languages for the Web are a bunch of trash cobbled together by cowboys and other amateurs. PHP is notoriously in that camp, with its details changing (backward non-compatible to some degree) with every new whole-number version.

A noteworthy exception is Java (not JavaScript), which was designed by real computer scientists at Sun a few decades ago.

The other current and near-current "real" languages (but not Web-specific languages) are of course C, C++, C#, Ada, and even MS Basic.

A similar parallel (pun accidental) exists in control panels. The world's most popular one is cPanel (and its WHM other half), cobbled together by Texas cowboys - real junk! The best control panel is Parallels Plesk, designed by some top-notch real programmers in Russia.

Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331

On 12 January 2016 at 23:36, Paul Sierks psierks@sierkstech.net wrote:

As per the request made during the general meeting to post this on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhZZNUyVFM

Enjoy!

• Paul

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