On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Michael Loftis wrote: > And I have to agree with Henrique here, and not just because he keeps Cyrus > backported for my older Woody installs :)
Heh. Thanks :) > Working at a web host we deal with all of the major PHP packages. I won't > name any names, but most of them are pretty poorly written. Riddled with > bugs and security holes. Because they're written to do one thing, look > pretty. Security is bolted on as an afterthought. I wasn't even going into the security area. It's just that I value tools that are done right a lot more than tools that look nice and are a pleasure to handle BUT damage all my work by doing surprisingly nasty things at the wrong time. UI *is* important. But it cannot come first over correct functionality. I have seen what happened to the software world with most Windows applications, I consider that to be the empirical proof that it is in our best interests to not go down that path. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
