<![CDATA[Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years.]]>Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish?

Expert: No, software is constantly evolving.

Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years?

Expert: No, different projects.

Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?

Expert: That's not how software development works.

Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.

Expert: Right.

Philomena: Is PHP like that?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/bf0ef4d0-86b4-4390-a996-19a73f6d5587/philomena-some-people-have-been-writing-php-for-over-20-years.RSS for NodeFri, 30 Oct 2026 16:16:45 GMTThu, 22 Oct 2026 21:04:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:37:41 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon
Narrator voice : It is important to mention that PHP was created in 1994, and the first release of the programming language happened in 1995. Only 6 years after the Belgian hit song, Pump Up The Jam.

https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?is=TqqDvwcnwMDlsPkL

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/ArnaudStrill/statuses/117488606347774260https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/ArnaudStrill/statuses/117488606347774260Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:37:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:37:24 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon She'd so say that. She'd then go on to add that "PHP was released in 1993, which as we all know was 2 years after the last episode of that brilliant program, Vrush Strokes".
I just looked them both up

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/KaraLG84/statuses/117488605240968358https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/KaraLG84/statuses/117488605240968358Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:37:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:00:10 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon Expert: No, it's more like masochism. And yes, some people find pleasure in it too.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/tinsuke/statuses/117488458825030367https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/tinsuke/statuses/117488458825030367Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:00:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:51:18 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon IT Crowd FTW.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/antdude/statuses/117488188020136474https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/antdude/statuses/117488188020136474Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:51:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:13:06 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon

There's always some new feature that people want, or some newly discovered bug to fix, or some new computer that the old software needs to be modified to work on.

To ask if software is ever finished is to ask if software is ever perfect. Which, no, of course not. Perfection is impossible.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one/statuses/117488037854360497https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one/statuses/117488037854360497Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:13:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:58:38 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon ROFL I lived for this post, LIVED!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunny.garden/users/WanderingInDigitalWorlds/statuses/117487745000761111https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunny.garden/users/WanderingInDigitalWorlds/statuses/117487745000761111Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:58:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:08:33 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon as an expert: all software is just a drunk with a shed and sometimes way too many drunks and a pile of shed parts if you work at a big company.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/zodiepupper/statuses/117487548094487025https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/zodiepupper/statuses/117487548094487025Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:08:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:07:17 GMT]]>@oregon_slim It's a ring toss game

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/ap/users/116642085088196892/statuses/117487543069675290https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/ap/users/116642085088196892/statuses/117487543069675290Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:07:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:05:34 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon

Hold on a second -- wasn't that PersonalHomePage thing a nifty choice back in 2008 when it was a key ingredient in the grass-roots campaign that got Senator Obama five dollar bills by the many and got him elected POTUS? Water sinks a few ships at sea now and then, but it supports all the rest.

I almost never wrote any PHP, but a friend once asked me for some help with the website of an org they were an officer of that lost its PHP person, and their membership data, like name, address, and membership expiration date, was maintained only as hand-coded tables in PHP code. In short, I've gotten this confused the hard way.

So, if 70% of the internet is PHP , I think we should declare it an illegal monopoly thereof, and force a split into the PHP and non-PHP parts with a 60-foot firewall in between. And we should force parents to choose which part their children get to see, and make credit card companies do business only on one part or the other, forbid inter-marriage, and see which part is still working in 2088, when we will draft all the survivors into the Space Force to protect us from the aliens.

And I'm not even running for anything!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116201309162790071/statuses/117487536349314373https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116201309162790071/statuses/117487536349314373Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:05:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:00:15 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon This is excellent content, some say even better than the 1989 hit, "Pump Up The Jam" by the Belgian act Technotronic.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://union.place/users/jaythurbershow/statuses/117487515460524870https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://union.place/users/jaythurbershow/statuses/117487515460524870Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:00:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:34:52 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon phpwned

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RobertoOtarola/statuses/117487415592740757https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RobertoOtarola/statuses/117487415592740757Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:34:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:39:43 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon

Expert: In a weird way, yes.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://glammr.us/users/jessamyn/statuses/117487198742189922https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://glammr.us/users/jessamyn/statuses/117487198742189922Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:39:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:20:18 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon Yes, PHP does make alcoholics... but that's different.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/howtophil/statuses/117487122427251328https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/howtophil/statuses/117487122427251328Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:20:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:12:21 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon Expert: Exactly correct.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/117487091145224096https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/117487091145224096Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:12:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:04:51 GMT]]>@darkuncle @CursedSilicon software is never released, but sometimes it escapes

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/spzb/statuses/117487061630678530https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/spzb/statuses/117487061630678530Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:04:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:52:33 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon πŸ˜‚

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://curloftheburl.nylarea.com/users/nilace/statuses/117487013279251076https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://curloftheburl.nylarea.com/users/nilace/statuses/117487013279251076Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:52:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:17:23 GMT]]>@crouton When you're as dumb as I am it just comes to you

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/ap/users/116642085088196892/statuses/117486874990023681https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/ap/users/116642085088196892/statuses/117486874990023681Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:17:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:15:27 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon I wish there were more little buttons to press under this to signal approval.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/indigoparadox/statuses/117486631469094609https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/indigoparadox/statuses/117486631469094609Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:15:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:11:46 GMT]]>@CursedSilicon β€œArt is never finished, only abandoned.”

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