PHP scares me.
December 5th, 2006I’ve been digging into an fairly popular open source PHP-based CMS/blog platform for some modifications and integration into existing systems. Suffice to say that some of the code in there really scares the hell out of me. I thought writing Tcl code for OpenACS invariably leads to spaghetti code. You should see PHP in all its tangled glory. I wonder how people maintain systems which are such a pita. Coming from the neatly-ironed world of Rails and it’s MVC sweetness, PHP indeed feels like a throwback to dark ages. Shudder. I hope I don’t have to work too much with this icky stuff.