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[torkell]

I hate PHP.

It just took me a good ten minutes to realise that I had typed $ids[i] instead of $ids[$i] in a PHP script.

And this is far from the first time I've made that mistake, which is because all the *real* programming languages I know have grown out of using prefixes to denote variables, and would not fail silently in such a case (well, VB would if you're mad enough to code without Option Explicit, but C and Java would fail noisily).

Did I mention that I hate PHP?

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[ralesk.livejournal.com]

Perl for the win.

[torkell]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Perl X_X

[olego.livejournal.com]

Perl, mind you, isn't much better. My loyalty to it is failing: I can't write anything without looking it up. The latest problem I had was that the break keyword should actually have been the last keyword, even thought the break worked perfectly fine.

And don't even get me started on the 5 ways you can call a subroutine:

a();
&a();
a;
&a;
goto &a;

I mean, yes, all five are slightly different, but for Crissakes! And typeglobs? And automatically flattened lists UNLESS you use references, in which case it's $var{$something} or $var->$something... Grr.