PHP, Classes, Camel Case, and Underlines
When I first started PHP programming, I wrote code like the PHP inventors wrote code, using lowercase characters and underlines, like: $my_favorite_variable = 5; function add_numbers($first_number, $second_number) { return $first_number + $second_number; } $answer = add_numbers($my_favorite_variable, 1); But this became tiresome. The thing is, the underscore character is harder to type and using all lowercase really makes the [...]
PHP and Other Internet Languages
I have an issue, I’m kind of unhappy with PHP. I have used many languages, but as a developer at Microsoft I used C, C++, and C#. I would consider C and C++ to have been naturally selected as the “best” languages, but at this point, we also know what’s wrong with them and want [...]