Re: Re: internals Digest 23 Nov 2013 16:10:48 -0000 Issue 3139
> I think you are overestimating the market share of the languages supporting
> your argument while downplaying those which aren't.
I think not.
Consider other common web tier: SQL (no operator support) and
ActionScript (no operator support). Plus, exclude Java stats that come
from the client, since the browsers are making all-out-war on applets
now, making them unusable if you do not control user desktops
directly.
Look, I didn't say languages with a right-associative exponentiation
operator have *negligible* market share across the web sphere; most of
them have a still-growing community and they power some significant
web properties. I'm saying that the feature is not
mostly/commonly/largely/usually present in the code that powers the
web. I stand by that completely.
Nothing inherently *wrong* with PHP being more math-y than most
languages in its sphere, but let's call it what is. And let's also not
be surprised if somebody ports a codebase from ^ to ** and introduces
bugs.
-- S.
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