Designing a consistent language is *very* hard

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 09:41:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message
> news:jngarb$14un$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Am 28.04.2012 10:18, schrieb Guillaume Chatelet:
>>> Sorry for the noise but I think a few language designer out 
>>> there might
>>> like this one :
>>> http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
>>>
>>> I think Walter and Andrei will smile ( or cry ) reading it.
>>> It's no trolling here, I do think this post is very valuable 
>>> and
>>> relevant from a language design perspective.
>>
>> Well, I cry everytime I am using it on my web site, but the 
>> effort to
>> port the scripts is not worth it.
>
> Abandoning PHP is *always* "worth it".

Rewriting seldom brings anything new. It almost like starting
from zero, without the benefit from all the bug fixes the
software has had along the years.

The hours wasted porting to a new language, could be used adding
features to existing code base, or refactoring.

I know how I am speaking about, many of the big bucks we get on
consultancy jobs, are from companies that decide to keep rewriting
their software on the flavour of the month framework, just because
"everyone else is doing it".

So I rather keep my "almost clean" PHP scripts running, as getting
to the trouble of switching ISP just to be able to rewrite the 
site
in a more sane language.

--
Paulo