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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
 Smear
Date: 1 Nov 2024 12:51:02 -0000
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Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/31/2024 4:44 AM, D wrote:
>> 
>> Wasn't Z mainly a php-programmer?
>> 
>>>>
>>>> I could name dozens of other elite programmers.  Thompson, Ritchie,
>>>> Kernighan, Carmack, etc.  So could Scott.
>>>
>>> Sure.  I don't put Bill Gates in that camp.
>
>Probably.  I think that Facebook is still a php shop but they have a php 
>compiler now to generate direct executables.  It supposedly cut their 
>cpu usage by 100X.

It's true that php is a horribly-designed langauge that is responsible for
a lot of bad programming out there.  But that doesn't necessarily mean that
a programmer is bad because he uses it.  It might mean he's very good if he
is able to write anything even remotely solid using it.
--scott

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