{"id":1261,"date":"2006-09-15T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2006-09-16T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T03:03:41","slug":"who-slams-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Who slams who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/dev-news\/article.php\/3631831\">&#8220;The Web is broken and it&#8217;s all your fault&#8221;<\/a>) popped up on the Postgres-general list and then made it into Slashdot as <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/06\/09\/15\/1412249.shtml\">&#8216;Postgres slammed by PHP creator&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Slashdot thread highlights some interesting PHP flaws and the fact that PHP is a bad language to learn programming in (&#8216;Code is Poetry&#8217;), by many compared to Visual Basic, the other awful language misused by people who think that programming is designing screens. You haven&#8217;t heard about multithreading yet?\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s interesting to see the programmer of PHP <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=196655&#038;cid=16113716\">duke it out<\/a> with the Slashdot crowd: obviously he was misquoted in the earlier linked-to article.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">I don&#8217;t think this is news to anybody that MySQL is quicker at connecting and issueing simple queries, and I am not sure why me showing some Callgrind profiles and stating that MySQL is particular good at these things is frontpage slashdot material. Slow day?\n<\/p>\n<p>Exactly that: For small things, MySQL does good. Need scalability? Obviously, <a href=\"http:\/\/tweakers.net\/reviews\/638\/4\">you would choose Postgres<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article (&#8220;The Web is broken and it&#8217;s all your fault&#8221;) popped up on the Postgres-general list and then made it into Slashdot as &#8216;Postgres slammed by PHP creator&#8217;. The Slashdot thread highlights some interesting PHP flaws and the fact &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}