[PLUG] Step away from the PHP

[Pete Lancashire]

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Ronald Chmara <ronabop at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Tim wrote:
> >> A warning for those PHP developers and app maintainers who aren't on
> >> the security mailing lists:
> >   Does PHP stand for Pretty Heavy Problems?
>
> Programming Has Problems....
>
> Any sufficiently dumbed down, easy to implement, solution creates an
> inversely equal level of problems in actual use. In this case, the PHP
> "session" development was initially implemented (IIRC) as a way for
> coding newbies to slap together very simple way of maintaining state
> on an inherently stateless medium (http), with expected levels of poor
> performance, scalability, and security.
>
> Unfortunately, the way PHP matured (if that's the right word to use)
> was that a great many folks saw the simple shortcuts and used them,
> rather than writing better solutions.
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