Strings & Ints

This could apply to many things, but today it shall apply to… PHP.

I know, I know, I’m not the first one to rant about this, and I most certainly won’t be the last.

PHP is pretty much the only language I know deeply, and I’ve been working with it for ages. About 6-7 years I think, I’m never sure. It’s an excellent tool for building websites, but it has a dark side. And this side is very dark indeed; it’s called simplicity. PHP is so simple every idiot with a keyboard can slap his hand onto it and find a functional piece of code. (continue reading…)