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a random thought

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:24 pm
by s.dot
I can't recall a single time I've seen -anyone- use the script tags for php. Short tags, ASP style tags, yes. But script tags... nope.

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<script language="php">

//im php, too!

</script>
Wonder why. Figures I would've seen somebody use that by now.

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:00 am
by Kieran Huggins
that's easy: programmers are lazy 8)

I mean, just LOOK at all those needless KEYSTROKES!

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:14 am
by onion2k
I don't think Textpad's syntax highlighting would pick that up.

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:40 am
by Oren
Kieran Huggins wrote:that's easy: programmers are lazy 8)
Great answer! 8)

Edit: But here is a more difficult one: why they are so lazy?

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:05 am
by Charles256
yep. i think all programmers deep down are lazy. it's why we became programmers. Put in massive amounts of effort to save us two seconds a day for the rest of our lives. Make sense? Nope. But such is the nature of the beast... ;)

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:25 am
by superdezign
Work smarter, not harder. ;)

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:16 am
by s.dot
I feel like going to another board, posting a question using the <script> tag, and wait for someone to say something about it.

And then argue the validity. :P

Maybe it's the rottenness in me.

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:31 am
by Ollie Saunders
I think it's deprecated now.
But here is a more difficult one: why they are so lazy?
I think you mean, why are people lazy? I don't think programmers are any different from the normal person in that regard it's just that we sometimes have the power to do something about it.

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:11 am
by shiznatix
I have seen that done before. This terrible website I was "fixing" or whatever has that going on. Basically, it just did a simple replace of those to <?php and ?> before executing the file or something. It was stupid and a complete waste of time and terrible when trying to edit it because highlighters did not pick it up.