I love a good, high quality rant; this is a very good one. Kudos.
I was starting to entertain the idea of doing a project in PHP, thinking it can’t be that bad. Thanks for convincing me otherwise. The inconsistencies you listed would drive me up a wall.
It does remind me of the Unix Haters Handbook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook); I used to have my very own copy; I would read it and laugh and think how lucky I don’t have to use Unix on regular basis.
Of course, that was back in the day; now I spend a lot of time at the command line on my MacBook Pro.
I was starting to entertain the idea of doing a project in PHP, thinking it can’t be that bad. Thanks for convincing me otherwise. The inconsistencies you listed would drive me up a wall.
It does remind me of the Unix Haters Handbook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook); I used to have my very own copy; I would read it and laugh and think how lucky I don’t have to use Unix on regular basis.
Of course, that was back in the day; now I spend a lot of time at the command line on my MacBook Pro.