[clue-tech] I'm blind, or why is this PHP fwrite() failing?

[Collins Richey]

On 9/25/05, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 9/25/05, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Looking through the PHP docs reaffirms my decision to avoid learning it
> >>at all costs.
> >
> >
> > Chicken!
> >
> > The docs aren't that bad.
>
> No, they aren't.  But the language strikes me as useless.  Take the
> first comment here:
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php
>
> "The novice php php developer should avoid creating functions which
> might produce a FALSE on failure and an integer on success, if there is
> any chance that the integer might be zero."
>
> It's no surprise to me to have multiple values for truth or untruth.
> But to be able to return a boolean or an int at will and have the int
> cast to a boolean seems to be rather more surprise than less.  Imagine
> yourself trying to debug that one--shouldn't a language help you avoid
> those kinds of mistakes?

PHP has a mechanism for sorting out such nonsense - the difference
between the == and === (yes three) operators.
>
> I'm no programing wizard, nor language guru.  And I understand the lure
> of being able to build web apps quick and easy.  But if they wanted a
> web app framework couldn't they have adapted an interpreter for a tried
> and true language?  And you can build web apps in Java, Perl, and Python
> (oh, and lisp too).  I don't understand what people find compelling
> about PHP--what did everyone else do wrong?
>

They did produce an interpreter for a tried and true language - C with
some rather logical extensions (C never heard of associative arrays,
for example). Sorry, I'm not a fan of the other languages.

I'm not trying to sell you on PHP. I just happen to like it, and the
more I get familiar with it the better I like it.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
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