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Accidental Tech Podcast

374: Screwdriver Testing Harness

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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0:00.0

Next thing you're gonna say oh, I still use PHP or oh, I still use objective C

0:04.5

Oh God, let me tell you about PHP. Oh my God

0:08.7

Actually all kidding aside. I wasn't planning on talking about that tonight

0:11.2

But since I slice you have brought it up

0:13.9

I'm genuinely curious what what the issue is and the problem is I don't know enough PHP to really be able to

0:19.8

Contribute it to the conversation save it for the show

0:24.4

The show get on board buckle up John. Oh my goodness. We're not following the format John

0:29.2

Yeah buckle up now

0:31.3

So what is the issue with with modern PHP and somebody I don't remember who was but somebody had had conjectured

0:37.2

You know, maybe it's for better testing or something which could be but again

0:41.4

I don't really know enough about what you're seeing or what I'm talking about when it comes to PHP

0:46.7

So be able to pass judgment

0:48.2

But what what is good PHP to Marco and what makes modern PHP not good?

0:54.3

When PHP first was a thing like in the I mean I think it came out in the late 90s

1:00.2

I remember first seeing it becoming a thing

1:02.8

Early 2000s was like really like when it really got going and it became very popular and it got a immediate

1:09.5

very bad reputation

1:11.5

And and part of that was well-deserved

1:13.9

You know, there's that wonderful website that somebody wrote that says like PHP is a fractal of bad design

1:18.7

And it goes through a million different things about why it and and yeah

1:22.0

PHP was like a kind of cobbled together mess of multiple different styles of things that from a very long time ago by

1:28.8

You know, not the most language nerdy of people

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