Re: newbie

From: Yitzchak Schaffer <yitzchak.schaffer_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:56:18 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On 3/24/2010 17:43, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> I know there's a lot of stuff written in it, but *please* don't
> recommend PHP to beginners.
>
> Yes, you can get a lot of stuff done with it, but I've had way too many
> incidents where newbie coders didn't check their inputs, and we've had
> to clean up after them.

Another way of looking at this: part of learning a language is learning 
its vulnerabilities and how to deal with them.  And how to avoid 
security holes in web code in general.

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Yitzchak Schaffer
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Received on Thu Mar 25 2010 - 11:13:18 EDT