{"id":4640,"date":"2012-04-10T15:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2012-04-22T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:21:34","slug":"php-a-fractal-of-bad-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/me.veekun.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design\/\">Alex Munroe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/me.veekun.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design\/\"><p>Virtually every feature in PHP is broken somehow.  The language, the framework, the ecosystem, are all just <strong>bad<\/strong>.  And I can&#8217;t even point out any single damning thing, because the damage is so systemic.  Every time I try to compile a list of PHP gripes, I get stuck in this depth-first search discovering more and more appalling trivia.  (Hence, fractal.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2012-04-22): <a href=\"http:\/\/stmts.net\/2012\/04\/22\/wake-up-and-smell-the-wasabi\/\">Jesper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/stmts.net\/2012\/04\/22\/wake-up-and-smell-the-wasabi\/\"><p>For the rest of my life, barring something even better, I will carry around that link to use when people ask why I hate PHP. A third of the text could be slander and a third out of date and it would <em>still<\/em> be enough to keep me away. It may run the Internet, but it does so in spite of itself, and not because of itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Munroe: Virtually every feature in PHP is broken somehow. The language, the framework, the ecosystem, are all just bad. And I can&#8217;t even point out any single damning thing, because the damage is so systemic. Every time I try to compile a list of PHP gripes, I get stuck in this depth-first search discovering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}