The magic quotes, and the safe mode… ‘nough said.
Fortunately, both of these are deprecated in new versions of PHP.
Unfortunately, most hostings are not that keen on updating PHP to the newest version (mainly they’re still stuck at the likes of version 5.1.x).
What to do?
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Lets face it – there is no one programming language for all.
Sure, there is [language of your choice]. But how often do you go online to look for an algorithm to solve problem at hand, and the example source code you find is exactly in the [language of your choice]?
There are many books and texts about Lisp on the net, so I’ll leave out the “common” stuff, and I’ll try to show in this article one aspect of what makes Lisp the “most hackable” language out there.
If you think that tuples in .Net4 are awesome, or that F# is innovative, then you can stop here. This article is not for you… Seriously, don’t waste your time…
If, on the other hand, you ever wondered why your favourite language does not have this and this feature, ever wanted to hack the compiler (and/or really did), or found yourself writing bunch of a very similar code and spent days thinking of a way to refactor the code despite the limitations of the language at hand, then Lisp is The language for you.
After the previous WTF post about PHP, I was kinda hoping there won’t be any more unpleasant surprises regarding PHP… Nah, I was wrong.
VirtualBox sure is a great virtualization tool; not yet at the level of VMWare, but it’s getting very close, and esp. for basic day-to-day programming, when all you need is an “alien” test/development system, it’s a very adequate tool to use, and rivals VMWare’s performance quite nicely, and it’s free as in beer.
OK, we all know, all is wrong with PHP. It’s a language where main programming style is hack/patch, and that’s also the way it’s organized. Where else do you have functions that in one variant have certain order of parameters and in other reversed?… OK, in quite a few, but that’s not the point.
