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Jul. 18th, 2006 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torkellI 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?
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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Date: 2006-07-18 10:53 pm (UTC)You think thats bad, try searching for this difference in 500 lines....
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Date: 2006-07-19 01:19 am (UTC)Trying to find a bug in 400 lines of code: I had accidentally written '<<' instead of '>>' ....
That was a headache and a half.