Tag Archives: perl

Smarty is on my evil list

January 7, 2006 – 8:33 pm

Although I have my grousing about PHP in general, I have to say that it makes much better template language as-is before pulling something like Smarty into the mix. At this point, I consider Smarty to be evil—though I’m willing to admit that I haven’t grokked it fully yet. And this is coming [...]

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Not-so-deep PHP thoughts

December 18, 2005 – 10:50 pm

You know, not that I’ve been at it for long, but I’ve had an long-running observation about PHP: As a language and an API, PHP kinda stinks. It’s got more crud than I left behind in Perl, but without all the meta-magic that made it worth it. And, I get a little nervous tic [...]

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