I graduated in 1990 in Electrical Engineering and since then I have been in university, doing research in the field of DSP. To me programming is more a tool than a job.
I’ll wrap this up by asking a simple question: if Boeing or Airbus started coding their
planes firmware with JavaScript today, would you board it? 🤔
Because with PHP, sure, I would.
No, neither with JS, nor with PHP.
They can be popular, but they have several design flaws that make them "culture broths for bugs."
Seriously, would you board a plane whose software is written in a language that computes "0.15" == "15e-2" by first converting everything to float and then doing the comparison? Sure, operator === exists and a good programmer would use that; but I prefer a language that is able to defend itself from bad programmers and one way to do that is avoiding to be "smart" by converting everything.
Because of this "smart conversion" == (in both JS and PHP) is not even transitive...
You got a point. But I don’t believe any language or platform is more fitted for bug making than any other. I’ve seen my share of bad code in C++ and Java, things you wouldn’t believe, to get rid of the types strictness. Ending up in null pointers everywhere and some guy allocating a 1kb array before the pointer to prevent a core dump, you know… routine stuff in enterprise software 🙄
So I believe software is as bad as the dude (or gal) writing it and every problem resides in the space between the chair and the screen 😂
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No, neither with JS, nor with PHP.
They can be popular, but they have several design flaws that make them "culture broths for bugs."
Seriously, would you board a plane whose software is written in a language that computes
"0.15" == "15e-2"by first converting everything to float and then doing the comparison? Sure, operator === exists and a good programmer would use that; but I prefer a language that is able to defend itself from bad programmers and one way to do that is avoiding to be "smart" by converting everything.Because of this "smart conversion" == (in both JS and PHP) is not even transitive...
You got a point. But I don’t believe any language or platform is more fitted for bug making than any other. I’ve seen my share of bad code in C++ and Java, things you wouldn’t believe, to get rid of the types strictness. Ending up in null pointers everywhere and some guy allocating a 1kb array before the pointer to prevent a core dump, you know… routine stuff in enterprise software 🙄
So I believe software is as bad as the dude (or gal) writing it and every problem resides in the space between the chair and the screen 😂